1. May God protect the covenant of a beloved friend
And enliven the dwellings of that settlement

2. For since the lands have harbored him
I have been tested by yearning for him

3. And my heart is true in its faith in him
It loves the worship of that idol

4. I walk with grief in my throat from me
And I start the day with sorrow in my heart from me

5. And I cry though I have no neck-ring to cry for
When a neck-ringed one cried during trials

6. So my tears openly flow
And my passion hides within

7. And I stay up erect in bed
As the verb stood after the subject

8. And who can lend me something I forgot
Which I think was called sleep

9. And no matter how eloquently the fever's lightning flashes
I remember him with an agile tongue

10. I say to myself perhaps or maybe
And that is a trick of love

11. It's as if in loving him I am a merchant
And I have no capital except the price

12. So leave passion, for it and disgrace
Are partners, equally yoked

13. And I am the storehouse of his news
And I have certain knowledge of it, so ask

14. Shall I herd the hillsides, and I have a will
Roaming the tips of spears?

15. And I despair though the land has the likes of
My father Tahir son of al-Hasan

16. Loud of call, fresh with dew
Abundant in giving, welcoming in hospitality

17. The nakedness of the kingdom was covered through him
With some cleverness, an accomplished art

18. When water is far from one who seeks it
It is from him that his bucket and drinking-horn come

19. And if hopes have been lost among people
He recovers for us consolation and grace

20. So he is consolation, and in him is solace for us,
And grace - would that blame be choked in grace!

21. He makes precious his generous acts
And buys praise at the highest price

22. He is the spirit in the body of noble deeds
And through the spirit survival of the body is hoped for

23. He did not miss dignity in youth
Nor did old age make him forget the way of intimacy

24. His playful ways are like the gardens of the grieved
They please the grieved and increase grief

25. A knowledge in which the forbearing prove ignorant
And a forbearance that shakes even the nest

26. Through him there is an aversion to the affairs of baseness
As the flock was startled by a howling wolf

27. I headed for his abode, and my assumption of him
Was beautiful, and he made every assumption true

28. I toured the wastelands and roamed the lands
But did not see a freeman except him

29. Neither has my praise of the chosen one digressed from him
Nor has his gift to the covetous one digressed

30. So he remains in a blessing that does not cease
And a new passion that renews throughout time