1. Alas for the disturbed society,
Therein lies the cure for my worries.

2. And if you both deny I was misguided,
Who else is harmed by my misguidance?

3. Whether you wish to make me happy,
March me to the houses of separation.

4. Be silent, for if they gained speech one day,
They would complain to you of the injustice of nights.

5. Perhaps I will see ruins of a love,
And traces of the days of union.

6. My companion’s share of me is yearning,
The yearning of the bereaved for separation.

7. And a spring of tears flows,
So it speaks though I stay silent in my misery.

8. And something stolen from my heart hides
The fires’ peaks while it remains ablaze.

9. And of the beauties of the past, there is a gazelle
Who meets for rendezvous like the gazelle.

10. I yearn for the promised meetings with her love
Though she puts it off with the impossible.

11. And estrangement made us humble until
We sufficed with apparitions for visits.

12. And the slanderers told her of me
What made excuses in boredom.

13. I had intended to be patient with her
But when I began with it, it seemed to me

14. It waters Najd and the South of Najd
A pouring rain of relation and separation.

15. As if its lightning fluttered distinguished ones
Who went out into the darkness without glory.

16. And swords were drawn upon warriors
That have a near covenant with the whetstone.

17. So how many honored ones in the South of Najd
Small of guilt, tolerable coquetry.

18. When the slender ones seduced a longing heart in him
It was not devoid of determination.

19. So tell the family to tread kings
And win the yardstick of men with coyness.

20. Make a quick glance between my Buwaih
To see latitude despite the narrowness of range.

21. For them in every misfortune there are forbearances
Heavy, cannot be weighed against mountains.

22. And in their nobility the pride of kingship rises
Like the rise of the full moon in the dark nights.

23. And the Buwaih kings knew
You who resolve the most complex of afflictions.

24. And that for you among perilous situations
Is like the position of fire on the wick’s end.

25. So when he who wished from them transgressed,
You hurried to him before haste.

26. Lions like courageous heroes, mares
On the withers of steeds like mirages.

27. They surround the prayer of the valley’s expanse
From which the slopes of sands are warned.

28. When the knight intent on continuation dashed
And trampled the peace in the ways of war.

29. And made those with too much self-regard taste defeat
Who marched to avoid the fight.

30. And they likened you, burning with fury
As the horizon shone with the gleam of a new moon.

31. And the transgressors thought to bar you from it
But your spears were not dulled by avoidance.

32. So what courage you have that benefited
From blessings in your presence the loyal!

33. And what arduous thing you overpowered by force
To reduce the difficulty for men!

34. For you taught how to avert evil
And how to traverse the narrowness of range.

35. And none lose your tracks who are guided
By the positions of the star of glory.

36. If you were an impenetrable armor for me
Against the turns of time, I would not care.

37. And the enemies frightened me with their evil
But the notion of fearing them never occurred to me.

38. And they attempted to sever enduring ties
I clung to, but they did not cut my rope.

39. And they resented nothing but that I have with him
An intensely close, listened-to conversation.

40. And that compared to all people combined
I befriend who he befriends, and follow whom he follows.

41. And how many hidden pearls I have in him
And magic I surpassed right conduct with.

42. It sinks into hearts without barriers
And cures you with an answer without a question.

43. And a rhyme whenever it is heard
Its sweetness flows clearer than limpid water.

44. And were it not phrases, it would be
The unique throat of the lady gazelles.

45. And this holiday and Nayrouz came
As they augured the best of omens in you.

46. And they did not part in this time
Except as the right hand parts from the left.

47. So continue with generosity you made cheaper
Though generosity never ceases being expensive.

48. O my bliss that lasts, my being
Beyond time without fading.