1. The most immense of what the young lover's patience towards passion protects him from is blame, and to passion he retreats.
I say to those who blame me for his love:

2. Patience, for my passion is excusable.
His cheeks are water and fire, and from his sweet kiss comes musk and wine.

3. The swords of his glances enveloped me, and so the morning came while my mouth was still a gaping wound.
In them I see symbols of promise for the lover, when they squint with promise and magic.

4. His waistband tells of my anxiety and emaciation as it circles his waist and hips.
The smoothness of flirtation dressed his beauty in a robe over which the eye of the flirtatious darted amorously.

5. My heart insisted on passion for him though he was stubbornly chaste, and my heart was bent on passion for him.
How can I endure the injustice of the charming one whose love shed my tears as witnesses?

6. I call on you, O unjust one, is there a string in my heart for your eyes to play?
You have forbidden my eyes from sleep and sanctioned the shedding of my blood though it is sacrosanct.

7. If you feel no tenderness for the desperate, and he has no patience with you,
How can he expect comfort from you, and how can he free himself from your bondage?

8. I remember the night you blamed me while intoxication and passion made me lose my way,
And you bid me farewell with the coldest kiss while in my heart there was still an ember.

9. When we removed the veil of dignity and the night covered us with its gown,
I suppressed my tears fearing separation though love is sweet yet bitter.

10. How did the intimacy of union change to estrangement and separation at your hands?
Such is the nature of fate among its people, joy and sorrow, benefit and harm.

11. I am not like one who protests when fate frowns.
The man appears great on the day of pride though no greatness lies in his core.

12. A generous man whose smile in greeting gives hope of success and good tidings,
He has a clear lineage whose light shone like the dawn rending the darkness of night,

13. Descendant of the Imams from Hashim whose command the people of time obey.
Their swords bring prosperity, while the face of the land without them is barren and desolate.

14. By their glory Quraish gained prominence and became leaders of mankind.
O son of Dawami, you are a man whose allegiance to the truthful (Abu Bakr) we profess.

15. I have a need that if presented will benefit me without harm to you.
When you stand at the prince's door and the veiled moon is revealed to you,

16. Kiss the earth for me, for kneeling to kiss where he trod is my pride.
Say "O exalted and lofty Ali, O you whose hands rain bounty copiously,

17. Your sky rains for the desperate petitioner while the sea of your gifts is abundant."
When the hopeful are barren lands, you are a rain cloud, and if times are dark, you are the full moon.

18. You pardoned sinners, so you are righteous while your right hand is an ocean.
Help me adhere to the way of your grandfather the Friend (of God) whose mention until today remains.

19. I have a son who spends nights sleepless from the excess of my love for him.
I delayed his circumcision until years passed by the tens.

20. His cleansing during the postpartum period benefited me while delay only harmed.
My determination to purify him was sound, and I have no wealth save your gifts as store.

21. I seek only a small thing, insignificant when added to your copious sea of bounty.
An Iraqi silk robe whose threads are as fine as dust so the wearer's eye delights.

22. If you gift it free as a mare, praise be to it as a bride-price.
Its quality will renew your memory, and its folds will spread your virtues.

23. You have the likes of it and more, while I have all the praise and thanks.
You have no excuse if you do not give, just as I have none if you are ungenerous.

24. So take the opportunity to reap reward and recompense.
For praises of great men persist through time while gifts pass.

25. Not every day in your career of glory can a servant obtain purification.
Do not our hopes in you fall short, or your life reach old age.

26. Nor cease the journeys of bliss to you - fasting, feast, and rupture of fast.