1. He is evident until the meadows appeared
And O heart, you too are among those I bid farewell

2. We stood still, and our standing increased the separation
A group of passion among us, yearning and longing

3. The eyelids became wounds from crying
And poppies bloomed on the cheeks

4. People came and went, born and died
Speaking and silent

5. My state changed though the nights remained the same
I grew old but time's young maidens never aged

6. Ask the oxus where the gardens' streams are from its nuts
And the doves about the melodious singers

7. On a gloomy pitch-black night, as if
Your shining face lit our path and guided the latecomers

8. Its wings shine lest the travelers lose their way
And the young camels only due to the leaders

9. Swaying startled me from sleep as if
My clothes were flashing lightning in intoxication

10. They grabbed the son of Isaac al-Husayn so his horses neighed
His spears, lances and banners mingled

11. One who makes the earth shudder in awe when he walks upon it
And makes the lofty mountains shake

12. A young man like a raincloud, inspiring both awe and hope
His rain is hoped for, his lightning feared

13. But time passes; this is lasting
And sometimes it lies while fate is truthful

14. He shunned the world but its horizons remember him still
Both east and west

15. The Indian beauties are nourished on rapture and kohl
They are his orbit and they are the executioners

16. The pockets tear from them when he attacks
And the cheeks and temples are dyed red from them

17. Those oblivious of their fate avoid them
While those who transcend themselves seek them in prayer

18. Silent, he is argued with; argumentative while quiet
He seems silent but his sword eloquently speaks

19. I did not recognize you until I marveled long at you
Yet it is no wonder, for God is the Creator

20. As if stingy towards money but in every battle
Passionately in love with death

21. Barely does it last as it began with them
You made your steed compete and outrun them

22. The watchman will proclaim you like no star rose
And the messenger sing your praises like no radiant dawn shone

23. Fear God and veil that beauty in a wrap
Else the longing in hearts will vanish if your face is exposed

24. Fate does not deprive those whose gifts you refuse
Nor favour those from whom you withhold your bounty

25. Time does not undo what you patch up
Nor rise above what you transcend

26. The good - none but you - sought riches without you
And none but you can capture the inaccessible

27. You are the ultimate goal and seeing you is bliss
You are the world's dwelling and you are creation