1. The attainment of desires with prayer and hope of fate,
Not with wishes and supplications to destiny,

2. So if a trace faded or its dweller perished,
Then do not stand in it, perplexed and thinking.

3. The musk distracts you from its scent,
And the brilliance of the sun makes you forget the moon.

4. If I were not similar to people in morals,
I would say I am from a generation other than humans.

5. Or if the water of my knowledge did not overwhelm my thoughts,
My thoughts would have burnt me in its fires.

6. The harshness of days adds to me a good quality,
As if I were musk between granite and stone.

7. I got accustomed to the greatest of the accidents of fate,
So I do not get confused by its other children.

8. Nothing amazes me in its variation,
When I contemplate it from these forms.

9. I see clothes, and amidst them there are cows,
Hornless, and this is a defect in cows.

10. She said you slept, and I said worries made me sleep,
And worries sometimes prevent staying up.

11. How many times I have fallen like a bird in a trap,
So its bitterness shook my gallbladder.

12. I get clear and muddy sometimes because of my experiences,
And it is not good to be pure without being muddy.

13. I walk the horizons like a lovely full moon,
And fill visions with moons.

14. If you doubt what you see,
Then do not say I have sight among people.

15. And how can a person rejoice in his conceit,
If when he looks at it, it does not prove true to him.

16. I was happy with the poverty I suffered from,
Fearing the two disgraces of arrogance and vulgarity.

17. And sometimes the blind man rejoices in his state,
Because he has been saved from the embarrassment of one-eyedness.

18. I do not cry for the white hair I was afflicted with,
Who cries for white hair is one who despairs of life.

19. Be wary of your friend, not of others,
If intense wariness saves you from him.

20. I do not feel reassured about a person I meet except that
Hishidden secrets are revealed to me when I examine him.

21. And I have looked upon the world with a frown,
So my eyelids belittled it to the utmost belittlement.

22. I did not thank my time while it took me up,
So how do I thank it in my declining state?

23. No shame attaches to me that I am without youthfulness,
And what shame is there for an eye that has no eyeliner?

24. So if I attain what I love, it is about fate,
And if I am deprived of what I love, it is about an excuse.