1. The destiny of life watered our blood
With drafts of torment and misery

2. And your abode increased, O house of passion
O comfort of loves past

3. Though your meadows are deserted
My virginal love is not forsaken

4. My soul is neighbored by those
Whose parting does not trouble my breath

5. I implored God against their guide
Neither did I waver nor hesitate

6. And he led them into plains
Like a driven camel herd

7. Their litters borne on camels
As if a caravan took rest

8. Among the departing are censuring glances
Mocking the languid gazelle

9. Showing you a fawn without
Blemish or fault

10. The arrows of their eyes beneath
The canopies deny all sleep

11. May time allow me
To return the slanderers' harms

12. And nights we stole from their time
Surreptitiously and furtively

13. Oh God, how much intimacies and pleasure
I have treasured and kept

14. In a monastery I lodged
While its monk was asleep

15. And from the inebriation of old age
One came to me holding a lantern

16. As if the wine had bound
His tongue into silence

17. And he brought cups as though
The sun was immersed in their wine

18. I weighed not their worth
Nor did he diminish the price

19. A potion like the scintillating
Sparks in the wing of night

20. Bearing the scent as though it came
From the meadow's breath

21. As if the soul of his draughts
Were the best of humanity

22. The majesty of religion and the faithful
To his hopeful with what he sought

23. If he plants his hand in moisture
He waters with good tidings what was planted

24. If his hand touches barrenness
He makes it grow where he touched

25. He guaranteed, whenever he smiles, bounty
And death when he frowned

26. And I swear he never disappointed
A hopeful nor despaired one

27. The expectant never suffered
The tightfistedness of his palms or misery

28. His time made the noble traits
Flourish after their death

29. And revived what symbols faded
Of the tenets of faith

30. Solemn is he when beasts settle
And crawl humbly

31. And you meet him in the morn
Immersed in thoughts and contemplation

32. A lion stalking prey
And a towering minaret when settled

33. When his fingers give generously
You'd think the rain was pouring

34. For the men of opinion wearied them
And they fell silent

35. The flowing of his munificence spares
The protected path if it became sullied

36. And his cunning makes him forget
The wolves of wickedness and villains

37. He renders fairly his judgment
When fate alternates

38. Laughing in amity, and in battle
Baring fangs and ferocious

39. Thus the Caliph benefits from him
In matters well-trained and proficient

40. Never did right mix with
His discernment or confuse him

41. A stalwart whose sustenance
Did not tarry from his palms or cease

42. For when I sought his company
With my gloomy day sunny

43. I tamed time through him
And after sunrise he accompanied

44. Thus his survival was prolonged
As he enjoyed what he wore

45. The branches of his rule thrive
When the time's peg is firm

46. Every day he sees in his comfort
A quarter of celebration

47. Felicity alternates him
Like the morning breeze refreshes him

48. Upon you, son of Bukhari
The generous, glorious, and chaste

49. A barren she-camel whose resting
In her enclosure was prolonged

50. The steed of the Beloved that was not revealed
To the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the settled

51. The steed of the Beloved that was not revealed
Defiled or impure

52. Of words that were not
Flawed by their speaker or wretched

53. Meters that did not dress
Another with over-praised attire

54. Nor competed below the full moon
Veils or guards

55. They wove for you Eulogies as jewelry
And threaded for you Praise as a necklace