1. Do not spoil my advice with disagreement
Nor what manners are like mine

2. Loyalty has been forbidden to me, so I do not console myself,
Free yourself from the shackles of love and attachment

3. Do not hope for my recovery from passion
And despair is all despair of my liberation

4. How can one recover who is bitten, O brother of passion
From his illness, and poison is in the quiver

5. The sickness of my eyelids is its sickness, and its healing
In it, so it is the disease and it is the healer

6. Passion has made me wealthy with his separation
And how much I grieved, but not like this with separation

7. I am alone with my thoughts to bring his persona closer
The termination has been deceived by my ardent heart

8. And I repeat asking about him to an ignorant one
My knowledge, and that is the confusion of the ardent lover

9. So if time forgives me by bringing him closer
After our separation and disagreement

10. I told him of my passion and said, comfort me
But he answered me with silence and indifference

11. And a friend who claims to advise me blames me
Advice has lost the right of companionship

12. Alas, we both complain of the heat of passion
But you were ignorant of the difference between lovers

13. You got warmth from its fire wisely
While I prayed with its burning embers

14. Do you blame me after the winds of fate blew
While you are frozen and your tears flowing

15. Your harm will single you out, passion
So do not hasten my separation

16. I surrendered myself to passion in order to please you
That I sigh, and all my consent is that you remain

17. If you deviate from the path of nobility, you have
A guide to the virtues of morals

18. So strive for the glory of religion, you will find glory
When you meet Him, honor those you meet with it

19. And when you reach the most noble of veiled
Creatures, piety suffices for spending

20. Stay in the place whose dweller
Is the praise of good and fear of the Creator

21. And convey the greeting of an emigrant who
The hands of destiny have cast into the farthest horizons

22. He used to be known for his righteousness in Damascus
And now he is Iraqi

23. Passion has worn out his mounts and steeds
As if they are necklaces around the necks

24. He is frozen in the calamities of time
None complain of them but the passionate

25. His heart flutters at the mention of Abu Salama
It almost pierces ribs and diaphragm

26. Greet him, O best of those I hope for
In refuge or call upon the day of meeting

27. I have two agonies about you that
My patience cannot withstand due to ardor and compassion

28. Passion, you are the knower, overwhelming compassion
Is what you see me encountering

29. And if misfortunes miss you, then all
That meets me is carried by the eyelids

30. O rider of the excellent, glorious horse
And follower of fine steeds with pride

31. Among young men who have reached the tops
Until their bodies hidden more than ostrich

32. From everyone drowsy with his palm
Al-Walid shook Thinayat al-Mikharaq

33. Drowsiness has placed its cheeks on their palms
As if they were created without necks

34. Whether you have reached safety, convey
The most loyal greeting of an ominous Iraqi

35. And suspect that greeted one and gauge
Those girls, the keys to livelihood

36. From the family of a savior, whose courtyard
Is filled with visitors and peddlers

37. Wearing a coat of honor over which
Blame has no penetration

38. Frolicking at leisure, and in battle
Terrifying with raid and lightning

39. O Master whom my distance from
Has brought me closer to certain perdition

40. I am the most miserable complainer of what
I encounter when you are mentioned, O ardent lover

41. And if after you the eyelids look enjoying a sight
I punish them with my pouring tears

42. Do not ask joy of me, for it
Is a virgin I have divorced with separation

43. But your father, may he be ransomed, his love
Is unshakable, he has none other than you for separation

44. How can he console himself and how can he have patience
For Mustafa in the finest of morals

45. Of ardour that flutters for you and an eye
That weeps for you, for you with passion

46. When I learned of his inability to compose what
Would convey to you, of that which you deserve

47. I raced after you instead of him
And I reckon him in perpetuity as a failure

48. And I have exerted my effort representing him with
Little of the abundant remaining virtue

49. Running with my fervour for you and my love
For you and keeping promises and covenants

50. I used to think that I have reached
The end of the term of separation

51. And make my fervent heart dwell
Upon the hope of meeting

52. And I say time has softened the grip
Of my passion and longing for you

53. And suddenly it seems trivial
What I have encountered and will encounter

54. And decrees my dispersion and postponement
Of meeting to the meeting

55. Glory to the faith, what a longing calls me
And makes me hear about you from Iraq

56. With one I interpret, yet the ability
Of pens cannot record my longing for you

57. But I will postpone it and hope to
Discuss it with you in person upon meeting

58. If I am your longing neighbour
How am I after separation?

59. And I complain about days that
My soul sways between them confused

60. I am tasked beyond my capability
And carry against my will the unbearable

61. And abstinence compels me to be patient with what
Befalls me and whose taste is bitter

62. And they are forgiven if they let me reach
Your proximity I have met, and will meet

63. How often the passionate lover inclined
While intoxicated with passion awakens not

64. They tasked the weak among them with fatigue
And blame what he cannot endure

65. They encouraged him to cut ties and showed patience
For rejection and separation, so he surpassed

66. And inserted him from the seashore while the dweller
In the depth of love is drowning

67. And the ill suffering one suffers
What the healthy free one never suffered

68. My intimate, you are not to me as you claim
A true, honest friend

69. The afflicted has none to help
And no friend or caring friend

70. And passion’s brother, to his blocked heart with love
There is no path for consolation

71. The loyal ones betrayed him until forgetting
Stung him and imagination abandoned him

72. And if he complains with tears, they flow
As precious pearls and rubies