1. Sing cheerfully in your daytime
Aided by remembering God in chantings,

2. I busied the ships while they were unweaned
Yet your horses were not trained for leading ahead,

3. They spend nighttime in every dark and hollow
At the basin of ashes scowling,

4. When the dawn shone, the steeds were relieved for a while,
Bearing you on saddled and bridled.

5. While darkness upon you remains condensed,
Near leaves, their rustling was heard.

6. You do not return a greeting by gesture
To eggs which hatched submitting.

7. The women of darkness came with news of darkness
And they encountered us complaining.

8. Horsemen of ordeal, signs of aberration
Met you with bracelets informing.

9. Medals were not satisfied with good origin
So they came to you, tattooed.

10. They saw roses in the cheeks animated
So they left the slopes, sleepy.

11. They aroused the hearings saying
And conversed with hearts conversing.

12. The strange wonders of ignorance timed
With pearls were not flawed.

13. They rewarded the soil for burials
With their wrinkled old faces preserving.

14. They fell prostrate with Zamzam water, not Christians
Nor impure, thus remaining.

15. They may wake up refraining from righteousness and devotion
With the most fragrant amber perfuming.

16. As if the seals on their mouths were opened
From the sore punishment stamped.

17. Goblets of the loveliest wine quality
Yet they still bled.

18. Drinking does not wear it out by squeezing
When undertaken by those veiled.

19. Their skulls bent them away from purpose
With old age, so they bent.

20. The wines of saliva were not by any case
Forbidden to their seekers prohibited.

21. But the girls are motivating
Your steed in death to advance buried.

22. They accompanied you, so you benefited, begetting a son
Who afflicted you with his arrows.

23. Whoever was graced with sons, then how fickle
With that, from the blows of misfortunes.

24. From bereavement he dreads, and from filial disobedience
And in-laws who come determined.

25. And if we give birth to girls, then what misery
Appears in the faces allotted.

26. They want marital bonds and jewelry
And they meet suitors stung.

27. They are not invaders on a day of war
Nor in a night raid invading.

28. A burial and events are agonizing
To one of the honored.

29. They may lose honored husbands
So oh for the widowed women.

30. They give birth to enemies yet are a disgrace
If they become dishonored.

31. They trouble you if they serve without skill
When they return at night served.

32. As for wine, it takes away the mind
So you unlock with it the ambiguous meanings sealed.

33. And if the cups of the penitent confided in you
They would refrain from carrying regretting.

34. It broadcasts the secret of freeman and slave
And interprets the hidden lexicons.

35. Its intimacy unravels pleasures until
It returns from the rarities devoid.

36. It beautified the ugly so the souls pursued it
Which had been prohibiting it.

37. A seducer drinks it so it entraps him
He obtained the unperceived indications.

38. Its drinking lifts ignorance clamorously
Like flocks which came crowded.

39. Perhaps degenerates kneaded it with fermentation
So it overflowed with foolishness solidifying.

40. Or the crows completed it with eggs
Peak white ones, bending.

41. If the roosters of Layla perished
Then I am not of your companions, blaming!

42. Because of you, the edifices of noble deeds return
And the ruins of restraint collapsed.

43. Your companions may become prisoners
And meet the goblets broken.

44. Do not tell your affairs but keep them
Secrets in the conscience concealed.

45. For the secret in both eternities is dead,
A brother to two graves allotted.

46. The neighbors are but young maidens
About your fault, if they found hovering.

47. Do not ask, is it a singing girl or a Laymis
Who settled among the women residing.

48. Do not glance with your eye at departing winds
To their bathroom veiled.

49. Many odes of poetry, their knots became weak,
Knots for guidance composed.

50. Many strongholds from disobedience were plucked
By which the forearms are protected.

51. Whoever you mingled with from humans, so beware
The pitfalls of a scorner mocking.

52. When they aspire to you, they show misguidance
To the best delicacy postponing.

53. They raise charges against you ignorantly
And spend your treasures infatuated.

54. They imagined suspicions so they became a fire
For what they felt imagining.

55. When adorned on days of merriment
The horses of suitors were presented.

56. Disregard the blossoms of coquetry and do not fall for it
So you allow tears recorded.

57. Their sitting in the mosque is no safety
From sins heavily burdened.

58. Do not praise your beneficence if they concur
With hands correcting texts.

59. Bearing the flirtations of women is more worthy of them
Than pens markedly distinguished.

60. Arrows, if they learned the book of evil
They would return with what is reprehensible poisoned.

61. They leave the rational with an undiscriminating mind
When they came to guide learning.

62. If they asked the astrologer as inquirers
They are not by the astrologers rescued from misguidance.

63. To take the recital from an old woman
Of those who were concerned.

64. They praise the King with every wing
And bow at dawn prejudiced.

65. No fault is on the girls, a melodious tone
When they say the intended translated.

66. Do not let them near a blind man
Who dictates to them verses firm.

67. Except one whose hands trembled
And his tongue of those stuttering.

68. If they obey your order it is only blindness
They visit brides emulsified.

69. They wore peacock feathers as attire
And musk at dawn registering.

70. Take them away from the cunning ladies
Sorceresses who come determined.

71. They say: We provoke the absent ones until
They come with sandals tied.

72. We turn the pitchers of milk until
The misfortunes disappear from the imprisoned.

73. They claimed that in the chant of a poor one
Are treasures for kings concealed.

74. Do not let them enter your house by choice
I knew them to be blemished.

75. If they secretly deceived your ignorance anticipating
Then it is right that they leave blamed.

76. Equalize to you the Christian comrades
And an eye of a Jew and Muslim.

77. Whoever you neighbored of pure and murky -
Let the virtuous be honored.

78. All people are equal
Even if wars kindled hot.

79. Do not let an elderly poor man marry
One of the girls luxuriating.

80. For poverty is a defect if appended
To old age, it brings revered.

81. But the marriage of this is a life era’s daughter
Who avoided faces rouged.

82. Of those who when a year is scarce
Surpass misfortunes destructive.

83. Of street vendors, they avoided with every peg
And spent years criminalized.

84. Wealth overlooks a headstrong mistake
If your mentality submits.

85. One is enough for you so do not exceed
To another who brings agonizing.

86. If you oppressed a female companion with harm
Then it is most proper to frighten with threats.

87. Glassware, if you are gentle with it but otherwise
You see its fragments fragmented.

88. Guard yourself in the crevice from demonic spirits
Who visit the stars darkened.

89. The seducer may advance unto shelters
With wings in clouds starred.

90. A spouse does not protect the deal like a husband
Who makes her of the prohibited.

91. He guards her loss from every matter
And protects her from formidable tribulations.

92. When the caves enticed them with lawful
Your religion is piety and silence.

93. This is the saying of an experienced advisor
And advice for life and death.

94. Four natures were stamped with a matter
So they overflowed bearing it stamped.

95. Spirits wandering in bodies
Disgraced that they appear embodied.