1. Your memory reminds me of the bliss of youth
And my anxiety for the beloved in the valleys

2. My soul accompanying passion and my rising at dawn
To none other than the destination of passions

3. The whiteness of old age has darkened my fortune
When the white hair darkened the ink

4. O son of my love, for love there is a right
So fulfill, if you wish, the rights of affection

5. And restore to me what was between us
When I was obedient and compliant to them

6. The day of farewell came from the house of Mayya
And it tore our livers apart

7. They left my tears flowing and my love flaming
In turmoil, and my entrails burning

8. Do you know that since you left
My eyes have not tasted the sweetness of slumber?

9. I enjoy neither food nor drink
No pillow soothes me or bed comforts me

10. And the nights that pass and go
Have made my eyelids familiar with wakefulness

11. Each day I see my patience with you
Decreasing while my agony increases

12. You have taken my heart, so return
In your nearness, my heart to me

13. And restore what was between us
And let what transpired return to normal

14. Where is my pact with them? For long has my pact
Been quenched on the side of remoteness

15. My sickness for your love has made me more sick
Perhaps I will see you during my relapse

16. My copious tears for your love
And my heart inclined toward your plains

17. O blamer who thinks my rectitude
Is in my solitude - that is the source of my ruin

18. I am distraught with passion for you
While you are distant from me

19. The gazelles' eyes do not look
Toward the lairs of lions

20. I do not see myself as a perfect guide
Nor as a towering minaret

21. A glance that pierces my heart
Like swords drawn from scabbards

22. What heart has tortured with rejection
And vexed with distance and aloofness?

23. My pursuit has not benefited me
I seek but a page from the inanimate

24. My estrangement and accusation of me -
I am obsessed with blame and marshaling proof

25. And the hand of separation has long
Cast me as prey amid peril and pits

26. I roamed the lands - so what
Did I seek from roaming the lands?

27. Would that I knew, would that I had known
My purpose of resolve and intent!

28. In Baghdad, whom do I resort to
The noblest of the eminent in Baghdad?

29. It is Abdul Rahman, son of Ali
Noble in lineage and ancestry

30. The pious, the pure in word and deed
The generous, open-handed, son of the open-handed

31. May God elevate his mention in the heights
From exalted Ali, lofty in pillars

32. A conspicuous nobility and famed honor
That have vexed the enemies' noses

33. This is how, this is how virtues are attained
And merits from a gentle branch and sprig

34. He excelled the people in knowledge and piety
An honor for the honored grand figures

35. He earns money for spending while he
Is truly among the ascetics, by my life

36. May God ease his heart, so He shows us
White hands amid the darkness of afflictions

37. How much did the narrators relate to us about him
Reports validated to me by legitimate chains

38. And I prepared a narrative of him, and they said:
"How excellent is this renewed account!"

39. So he shows me the sweetness of generosity with generosity
And I show him the sweetness of singing his praises

40. God knows that he alone in his era
Is the unique one of the age, singular among the unique

41. The eloquent speaker in diction and meaning
To one who is discerning of its taste and critique

42. He recognizes merit and its people
And distinction of opposites by opposites

43. If some people are blinded to him for a reason
Or the eyes of the envious are clouded from him

44. So it is with white, though it is pure
Tested in its purity by blackness

45. O people of succor and return, when you
Repel the afflictions, O people of return!

46. May God reveal, through you, relief from adversity for us
And by you we pursue the path of propriety

47. Why would we not draw strength from the spirit of a people
Intercessors for us on the Day of Recompense?

48. May God be pleased with them and they with Him
The elite of worshippers among worshippers

49. My loyalty to them and utter love
Is my creed, my doctrine, my belief

50. So in that lineage lies my dependence
And to that lineage lies my reliance

51. Your superiority encompasses all the weak
And your help is for the driven wanderer

52. God has for you a treasure of knowledge
That will never be depleted as long as you remain

53. If these poems have exceeded the proper bounds
Then they are guided by your beautiful deeds

54. And upon you I impose rhymes of praise
Fragrant breaths in every place

55. And if I wanted to praise other than you
It is as if I sowed thorns of goatheads

56. I gained profit in you for my poetry
That has cast it nowhere else in loss

57. I, in gratitude for you, go and return
For I am the grateful wanderer, the returning one