1. The eyes have no mercy on hearts
They are an affliction, and their coolness is seduction

2. They leave the lover their prisoner, yet how often do we see
One whose eyelids have destroyed him

3. O you whose kohl-lined eyes are cruel, have mercy on one
Who is bewildered by your rejection and intent

4. You have pierced him with the arrows of your eyes, so he set forth
Wounded, with fires in his heart

5. He weeps and his passion leaves him distraught, so his heart
Is in anguish, utterly woeful

6. His doom has been sealed by your abandonment, and passion
Is difficult, and the days of separation, harsh

7. O you who dwell in the heart of passion, and in hearts
Are like them, though people reside in them

8. I have a suppressed longing for you, while for you
In my conscience, beyond conscience, there is loyalty

9. So when you are remembered, my eyes are my hearing
And when you appear, my body is human

10. And know that when you are absent, you are present
In secret - you have no place but that

11. You have taught me the science of passion and made me
Erased, impossible to trace

12. I complain to you, and of you I complain, so save me
From a fire whose fuel is impassioned tears

13. By your life, a dancer in a flowering meadow
Swayed all its branches

14. She sang, so my innermost being melted when she pulled
And provoked my fervor and tenderness

15. And a dove in the basin cooed, so my heart curled up
And my pearl-like tears sculpted

16. I shared when I had no comrade
And imitated the grieving when I had no sorrows

17. Woe to me from the pains that have troubled
A heart whose company are its neighbors

18. You have departed, my neighbors, and your dwelling is distant
And the lands and homes are far apart

19. By your lives, will you not join together one
Who loves you sincerely with goodness?

20. Your Salman is he, and love bears witness
And for every house there is a resemblance to Salman

21. He left existence for your sake, so his existence
Has saddened and impassioned his heart

22. Alas! He erred and forgot, so you rebuked him -
Should mistakes and forgetfulness be recorded?

23. Your beauty and majesty are unique
In passion for you the reins are loosened

24. In loving you he is the fabric of his time
Yet still deficient, however he is

25. How many claim falsely to love sincerely
And babble lengthily of their claim with their tongues

26. But when tested, their deceit is exposed
As is their falsehood and calumny

27. Averse is the passion of one who claims sincerely
While concealing, my brother, and exposing hypocrisy

28. The sincere, honorable ones have gone, departed
And times and manners differ

29. Is mockery - the universes have laughed at them
Men pass by indulging vain fantasies

30. That so-and-so's way is this, and so-and-so's that
The good ones have departed, and we live among

31. A people who, when called to righteousness, betray
Few are those who, when adversity shook them

32. Defended you out of love, with their souls, and supported you
This is the time, and these are the ways of those

33. Who are its people - they are its symbol
So restrain your passion for love, and turn

34. Away from others, O you who submit
For in the hearts of its men, love

35. Is a magnificent tree, with an artisan
It gives everything its due share of life

36. And its system is the balance for reformers
A meaning through which the scales are lightened, and a subtlety

37. Which is for intellects, whose ways are methodical
And by its symbol, a hidden, obscure mystery

38. That has perplexed minds and thoughts
Leave those who are ignorant of love or hostile

39. To its creed - both have failed
And act by the law of the towering ambitions heart

40. For it is manliness whose origin is faith
And if you are visited by evil suggestions in the night

41. Discard them, for they are injustice and transgression
Be generous, and do not be mean

42. The work of a generous man is founded on benevolence
And abstain from claiming permanence, and sleep - for what

43. In the house other than the Almighty Judge?