1. I knew the abodes like the fragments of ice
As if they had never been a dwelling for a friend

2. I recalled in it the whims of youth
In its plains and wandering youths

3. And a people who attack ceaselessly
Either with freshness or with dust

4. Whenever they were blamed in the assembly
They refused except to flare up or explode

5. I suspected my heart to be a traitor
Obeying openly and disobeying secretly

6. I lead it to longing though its hostility
If not for passion, I would have had the choice

7. And they said, after the events of
My time changed my white hair to black

8. White hair came to him with such dignity
So I said to them I did not want dignity

9. So oh that time would lend the jogging of time
When it would take back what it lent

10. And that the whiteness which wanted to leave
After visiting would not have visited

11. And a rug spread out for the racetracks of steeds
If they run, they do not fear stumbling

12. You see it straight as the chest of spears
That does not taste blindness except for delusion

13. It walked in the dark until it regained
The mirror of those nights' secrets

14. So when the side of fate turned him
To shake the dust off his shoulders

15. And relieve him of the reins of travel
He threw down his stick and slackened his waist-wrap

16. A shrine, when the guides prayed in it
They refused to pray in other than it

17. And a resting place, when the traveling she-camels of men
Were disturbed, it would be peace

18. So Allah's gift to you, you who takes
Revenge although vengeance was denied the avenger

19. And whom the terrified did not seek refuge in
His mountain except that he gave refuge

20. A young man who does not sleep suspiciously
And does not take worry except to vie

21. He does not choose but the horses
Whose darkness the clouds penetrated

22. And they tried you during the steps
An understanding one tested with them, so he puzzled

23. You were not but the spearheads for the spear
And were not but the spark for the sword

24.
And you in frightening are like the juggler

25. Who narrowed the horizon for the birds
And how many positions under the king of kings

26. Have you assumed, although difficult
And confused as the confusion of darkness

27. In which you ignited the fire of opinion
And you were the right hand in those calamities

28. While all the people were the left
And when the outcome of the affairs was evident

29. And its darkness shone clearly
It was realized, after that blindness disappeared,

30. Who it was that counseled correctly
And if not for your defense of those you see

31. We would have seen the shortest of men
And I have a breath between this praise

32. I was patient yet gave no patience
Do I approach you in pure intimacy

33. Yet you distance intimacy and house from me
And I forget so there is no mention of me absent

34. And that only increased my hurt
And I fear your fierceness against me

35. That the people reckon this as falseness
I am not one who suspects conscience

36. But I exaggerate openness
And if the people accepted an excuse from a man

37. I would have given them my ample apology
For they have no other than what they saw

38. Openly and deemed the rest as buried
And my replies would come to me hastily

39. With abundant pride
For now the years have lengthened

40. Or they have come to me swiftly fleeting
And how can the minor matters fail

41. To one I attained the greatest matters
And how many travels I have in you

42. I seek that I travel in them then hide
And many words like the arrows of fate

43. And distracted verse, if said travelled
They sing it for the racers

44. And it is drunk by lords of wine
And it is you who to the king of kings

45. Made me his shepherd so we travelled
And when you built in his plains

46. You extended the arms and raised the minarets
So you never ceased, oh solver of problems

47. Attaining the purpose and being secured from caution
And you were congratulated for the celebration

48. That returns as you wish it repeatedly
It returns with what you desired for it

49. Repeatedly even if you did not await it
And why does not time that saw you