1. Prolonged separation has intensified the pangs of parting
So much so I've become overly sensitive to separation

2. Why do the slanderers think I've become aloof
From the yearning that torments the ardent lover

3. Don't they see the eyelids address the agony
Of an innocent whose tears have paid the price of loyalty

4. Oh eye! If shedding copious tears doesn't satisfy them
Melt away and spill the reservoirs

5. My emaciation and pallor have both
Given away my body's secret love to the impassioned

6. As if it were gilt calligraphy
That made the darkness more gentle and bright

7. The envious blamed me, saying: "Abandon this passion!"
Only increasing my longing through blame

8. A wise lady spoke measured words:
"Consider the wise man equal to or above his wisdom"

9. How many hypocrites feign affinity
Only to later bare their malice and fake sympathy

10. Fire's light fills your eyes radiantly
Were it not for its burning nature

11. It is misguidance to keep company
With those headed to the market of hypocrisy

12. You strive, though if given its due
You'd attain what you aspire to rightfully

13. So abandon the land, bid the world farewell
Head for Oman, shun all horizons

14. There your status facade will please you
And life's taste will sweeten

15. Return to your homeland and seek the king
Who cloaks the darkness of your hopes in sunshine

16. A king, if one day misfortune stings you
You'll find in his munificence a coat of mail

17. He savors openness to the extent that he
Sees the nourishment of his generosity in openness

18. If you set forth, you'd obtain through good fortune
What your tribe has long aspired to

19. When gifts pour down, I said to a critic of you
"My friend! Do not blame generosity on the generous man"

20. If he sees you obedient, whether near or far
Bearing the immense or heavy load

21. He serves with his tongue in peacetime, and with his sword in chaos
Undaunted by whatever he faces

22. So I knew that if I followed her advice
I would not settle the conflict, or achieve accord

23. Before leaving, I found my own limbs
Exhausting my will to journey by night

24. Yearning for the rising of that moon
Who is never clothed in the garb of perfection

25. The interests of the land are in a pen of his
That undertakes futures and provisions

26. Awake he attends to acts of grace as if
He found sleep an experience to be tasted

27. He converses with scholars until he
Dislikes turning away during study

28. You'd think beneath the night his luminous brow
A dawn spreading light into the darkness

29. He almost transcends the limits of sublimity
To the point of rising with the stars racing high

30. His swords on an ominous day
Give the enemy a cup of hot blood to drink

31. Their nature lacks gentleness
But their tents are made of fine fabric

32. If people could, the day he marched forth
They would pave the ground his noble steeds trod

33. I have vowed if I see, once he has stirred
My steed to gallop towards him, I shall

34. Marry my soul to the daughter of joy
Divorce the daughter of worries

35. Forgive the past sins of fate
And accept its excuse, however narrow

36. Never again endure the anguish
Of their betrayal turning spring water bitter

37. As if God had taken a covenant from them
To violate the covenant

38. No sooner does a wicked plot brush me
Than I see its ignorant architect perish

39. O King! Your resolve
Has left the roaring deserters voiceless

40. You've adorned your nature with chastity—so excellent!
One who adorns himself with chastity adorns his morals

41. You've made your pardon the jewel of your might
Which is in the habit of striking necks

42. No rebel has heard your name
Without waking from his stupor in shock

43. You are still peerless in your time, like your father
Foremost in reaching the heights, outpacing