1. He passed the cup around overflowing with drink
And gifted it to us as molten gold

2. The stars of dawn were jealous when
They saw him unveil his radiance

3. Passion said to me, accompany him
And delight yourself with him, for the time is pleasant

4. We are in a paradise without immortality
And no fear of punishment

5. The fire of beauty blazes in the cheeks
Of the boys, kindling ardently

6. Pass the cup servant, pouring for me
And let me savor your sparkling wine

7. Pass it around sweetly and let me
Kiss your torments from between your wrists

8. He shot the arrows of his amorous glance
Whenever he aimed them at a heart, they struck

9. He circled with it among the tipsy
As if his palm was dyed red with it

10. Drinkers witnessing pure intoxication
When Satan sees them, he turns away

11. We busied ourselves with pleasures until
We knocked on the door of ecstasy

12. Whenever dignity concealed their frivolity
They decided to lift that veil

13. And they stood for the flawless one
Seeing abstinence from her as reprehensible

14. As if their sessions of joy made them
Cups of ease, enchanting them

15. Showing them different doctrines
And making their minds utterly lost

16. We sought amusement, though many an opinion
Sought wrong yet bore right

17. We never ceased to sip the wine of valor
Drinking it though it was bitter

18. Until the darkness of sorrows departed
As you would startle a raven from its nest

19. The tender leaves upon the branches sang for us
We nodded to them gently swaying branches

20. The reddened rose laughed at us
And saw our outrageousness as wondrous

21. The entertainer danced on while the gambler
Sang to accompany his swaying and standing

22. And every one of us frolicsome libertines
Were exuberant, youthful of cheek and lively of eye

23. Whenever he drank wine and it exhilarated him
He restored upon the aged their youth

24. By my father, passion in the lovers is
A flood, whenever love is mentioned they are swept away

25. With every swaying of the branches they bestow
On the roe’s neck confusion and alarm

26. When he treads the earth with his toes
He wishes it to be dust for him

27. Yes, by God, you are infatuated
When you relish the torment of love

28. Prepare for me a mention of great goblets
Filled with your drinking, or jugs

29. Leave off today talk of Salma
I want no Salma or lute

30. Of the words of Al-Shaji I asked a friend
Empty of those I love, but he did not respond

31. And take the words of Salman, for I
Love through it praise that is pleasing

32. He inspires awe along with beauty, and does not contend
He is described as beautiful, and does not refuse

33. If you enjoyed his fruits, you would reap honey
And if you opposed him, you would meet with separation

34. No eye has seen the like of him before
A beautiful beloved, revered and feared

35. He takes the place of dawn when he appears
And dawn cannot substitute for him

36. I would ransom him with my soul
And none have ransomed him, but lost out

37. I turned from mankind because of him, so he
Encircled me with his sheltering arms

38. So praising him became my habit
And benevolence and generosity became his nature

39. They are the eminent heads of Quraysh
You see all people following at their heels

40. And they are the best of Allah's creation
In origin, branch, reckoning and lineage

41. Allah is pleased with what Quraysh are pleased with
And wrathful if they become angry

42. Through them Allah established supremacy
Through them Allah sent down the Book

43. Those are the Household who brought it down
A heritage from their father, earned by them

44. Lofty peaks of the mountains of glory rising high
Their glories and expansive edifices

45. And refined, gentle morals
And faith comforting from despondency

46. To you we claim ties, and through you we take pride
From the boundless sea of laws and scriptures

47. And in both abodes we have never ceased
To earn reward and merit from you

48. And the utmost of wishes
Is nearness to you and drawing close

49. For a time, I was kept from visiting you, a month
So I have no mounts racing with joy

50. For the feast is not what satisfies on a feast day
Unless I witness that noble presence

51. The nights reproached me for your separation
For what had been sorrow and melancholy

52. As for the noblest short of sale
They are the longest in blaming the world

53. So O moon absent from the bright horizon
For a time, for recreation, then it came back

54. You rose like the rising of the full moon
When you set, no exile did you meet

55. And you came, inundating us with goodness
Flooding the plains and hills

56. For whenever you are begged for rain, and afflicted
You rain, and were on that day a cloud

57. So whoever you eased, you opened their breasts
And whoever you favored, you adorned their necks

58. And when I strung together rhymes for him
And confronted the seas with them, they ebbed

59. I stood reciting them for his eminence, and gave
My prayer, hoping it answered, as a gift

60. Whenever the vile one withheld his bounty
He refused except to pour forth and cascade