1. O love! In memory I see you still
Where are your days, O soul of being?

2. Where are my journeys of passion for your sake
Between flowers of union or thorns of rejection?

3. My heart thirsts for the days of youth
And for misfortune from foolish censurers

4. So when shall I reap fruits of error
From the bosom of my heart and plots of rivals?

5. After the days of madness, raging passion and fervent love
When my heart found rest from the kindling of discord

6. In the soft cheeks and sweet lips
My heart found rest - this is not mere talk

7. I was created to love beauty
I am a soul of love, rapture and transport

8. Struggle, strife and zeal
If I wished, I could match the poets

9. Just as I defeated the vigilance of writers
All is nothing except my heart

10. So let some envious ones die of vexation
What was serious enough to make me forget the spy

11. And overwhelming love and tender passion?
They thought I had repented, so I was set free

12. To say “Lift the curtains from the eyes of the curious!”
My censors slept while I dropped not my arms

13. God adorned for them a life of neglect
My censors slept while I have a bold glance

14. That seizes the forbidden from the garden of cheeks
Where are my censors? They fell into slumber

15. And sank into a hell of oblivion
I will not be content with dead censors

16. Let them say what they will, the curious
Who from youth drank eternal life at the fountain of youth

17. Depicted the passions of my love
Who gathered flowers and the violence of tender bows

18. Ignited in the devil the sparks of my mischief
He who sees in my dream only raving imaginations

19. Thinks love is just play and nonsense
Love is art made lawful by God

20. They name it madness though it is reason
A people lived by demeaning me unjustly

21. Let them live and attain what they desire
A people lived by demeaning me sinfully

22. While glory is far above their lies
In my heart resides the trusted spirit

23. So let their slander give them what they seek
It was said a misguided one followed his passion

24. And will mislead generations after generations
Let my time guard me from his severe harm

25. From a raging enemy, vicious and brutal
Where is the sin in what you read

26. Of my singing which is an ode to eternity?
If you understand, I adorned for you

27. The page of the universe and books of existence
Is it sinful for me to love beauty

28. In lands where all is beautiful?
If the critic looked through my eyes and wandered

29. He would see temptation in every road
Is it sinful for me to love beauty

30. In lands where all is beautiful?
If the critic looked through my eyes and wandered

31. He would see temptation in every road
Open your eyes and find inspiration in existence

32. And beware ignorance of the magic of madness
Some people's minds are impotence and torpor

33. And warn of storms of annihilation
Where, O where is the bliss of the wise?

34. It is a kind of oblivion of stillness
True life is struggle and toil

35. With flashes of lightning and claps of thunder
True life is harmed by security

36. From the misery of spirit in life and religion
O you slumbering in the night of dignity

37. Imprisoned in robes of caverns
True life is harmed by tranquility

38. So seek rest in the shade of shrouds
I have the antidote to the poison of ostentation

39. Follow me and you will be safe from the evil of ostentation
With thought and glowing mind

40. I glean from the flowers of my time what I wish
Egypt is a treasure of eyes and hearts

41. Egypt is sparks of evident sorcery
Egypt is my home and I am its keeper

42. For the eternity of magic in black eyes