1. The slender waist bent gracefully,
Straight as a spear, alluring and coquettish,

2. With branches for hips
And dunes on the buttocks.

3. Slow down, oh cupbearer,
For I am drunk on you,

4. Your supple figure arouses desire,
Springing from your eyes.

5. For me, your radiant garden
Is a garden of beauty.

6. Your rose petals
And your supple figure,

7. Your verdant cheeks,
Revive my soul and heart.

8. In you we have wine,
You are the wine and the cupbearer.

9. I yearn to sip
Your sweet saliva, thirsty,

10. Your glances hurl regiments,
To slay me in love.

11. From your lashes, arrows,
From your figure, supple spears,

12. Yes, in your awakening glances,
My soul and it are companions.

13. You're not like those who console,
Nor do I seek solace from you.

14. We entered gardens,
Saying: Where is Paradise?

15. In them, the forms and hues
Of flowers differ,

16. The narcissi have cheeks
As lilies have ears.

17. The bud appears with teeth,
As if to bite,

18. While the cupbearer chides us
For not drinking.

19. Wine-bearers circled with cups
And tumblers,

20. Silver goblets
Melting pearls within.

21. No devil whispered worries
Into the drinker's heart,

22. Saying: Drink for love,
For love rules all.

23. This empty goblet
Became full.

24. May God protect those we loved,
Though they betrayed us,

25. We remember them in absence,
Though they transgressed and left.

26. In memory there is sadness,
Sighs, and sorrows,

27. As if we are in the gardens of grief,
Not as we or they once were.

28. The rain of the past era waters
Wilting roses,

29. Since their loss, tears
Never dry on our eyes,

30. My burning liver thirsts
For the cool of their lips.

31. We gave selves that sacrificed,
Paying high prices of love,

32. But no wealth is safe,
Though children may be.

33. The lofty honor
Of the noble ones,

34. For their brilliant ascent
Is a sign of destiny,

35. When appraised, they are
The pride of Adnan,

36. Lords who bow to none
But God,

37. Unerring and steadfast,
Men of truth, unmasked,

38. Veils cannot stop them.
O highest aspiration, you are

39. Humanity's eyes,
In your steps are signs

40. Of the masters of yore.
When weighed, superiority

41. Tips to you,
Poems in your praise

42. Are melody and song,
In my thanks for your gifts

43. Are messages and proclamations.
God willed to raise

44. My stature through you,
Your kindness to people

45. Added to your beauty,
Any praise not yours

46. Would be pretense and slander,
Any gain not from you

47. Would be loss,
The dawn and what

48. Secrecy conceals of your merit,
My praises carried

49. Through lands by convoys.
You ascend to the highest

50. Heavens, where Jupiter sinks.