1. They traveled, while passion remains in the innermost depths.
So my eyes are not directed at anyone else.

2. Despair has cast me onto burning coals.
I find nothing but more sorrow.

3. O my heart that aids my longing,
O my tears that ease my yearning,

4. You both vie to increase my misery,
With the fence of patience between you, so hard to bear.

5. Certainly making wishes brings no healing
to one made frail by separation.

6. I loved from afar, and that brought me no solace,
My prolonged torment did not lessen my suffering.

7. Neither has the shedding of tears brought joyful hope,
Nor have I hoped that calamities would bring soothing comfort.

8. Whoever’s harm comes from himself,
Can hope for benefit from the parting of friends.

9. Why should I excessively bemoan in anguish,
When I have the outstanding virtues of Abraham as a guardian?

10. He who cares for me tenderly,
Whose name rings with generous favors.

11. The Imam of the age, to judge justly,
No longer needing to arouse dissent.

12. If a perplexing matter evades him,
He strives for certainty and to foresee it.

13. He brings us the full moon of discourse as prose,
Where the compositions of Iraq seem superfluous to him.

14. If he wishes the rhymes to comply,
He races ahead, a preserve for the stalks of the meadow.

15. Knowledge is led to him as if
He had transmitted it, bound to it firmly.

16. Wherever you wander isolated,
His praises revolve around you, uttered clearly.

17. And however much you hear of his admirable traits,
They conform precisely to his manners.

18. Forbearing, learned, courageous, generous,
Pious, glorious, and true to his word.

19. He is the boundless, sweet sea,
None but him can you seek from the water springs.

20. Eulogies quarrel as equals,
While through him they continue to flow smoothly.

21. Some people incline towards the Euphrates,
While others prefer the collecting pools.

22. Among them are those who ascend to the heights,
While others slip down the slopes.

23. Poetry was languishing among them,
But today through him it thrives with sincerity.

24. It is as if when I recite in his honor,
I am given refreshing wine from a gleaming cup.

25. When praise is exhausted for some people,
My praise of him remains for all time.