1. He disregarded suspicions and whatever crossed his mind,
And did not fear rumors whenever he swept them away.

2. The times of youth in every era,
Are fleeting moments and fate strips them bare.

3. He enjoys them heedlessly and makes promises therein,
Is it not by your Lord's knowledge that it was smoothed over?

4. The elders of mankind will sit around,
Until what comes after that melts them away.

5. I am not one who roams with the gazelles,
Or one who sat with the diving ones or kept count of them.

6. They posed as an example to an ignorant one the deep pools,
He overturned them and did not see their depth the next morning.

7. It is fire that appears beautiful from afar,
But burns the palms if you touch it.

8. The diving ones undertook it undeterred,
Then returned without gaining any fourth or fifth of it.

9. When its towering heights extended towards them
Torches that did not avail by what they grasped.

10. Had they not been harm and plotting,
They would not have remained confined at daybreak.

11. The passes of an adversary prevented retreats,
Passes embedded in their laughing grins.

12. The creations are similar and so are the lands,
Even if their images are inverted.

13. A crime is truly like embers,
But the letters caused it to be reversed.

14. The wealth of Zayd can become the poverty of Amr,
And the judgements of events cannot be divided.

15. It is as if you remain according to the nights
With the signs of governors that are inverted.

16. The best sustenance is what comes to you freely,
So rid yourself of the excess of hoarded wealth.

17. If only our souls and the truth were departing,
They would go just as they came without any sensation.

18. We came while the midwives were laughing,
And we departed while tears were flowing.

19. Our souls are pure without any doubt,
So what a pity for the contaminated bodies!

20. And he hopes to remove the injustice with thunder,
When he hears the loud rumbling and crackling.

21. The arrogant ones claimed and judged us,
So woe to the thoughts they elicited!

22. Whoever contemplates the days, adversities become
Easy upon him even if he is deprived of them.

23. If guidance was directed with a good deed,
To a desirous soul it would suffice it from what it desires.

24. Whoever praises a miserable living,
Blames fate for its harshness impolitely.

25. For the bereaved mothers
Are the ones who lose children and do not lose them.

26. Eyes envied a slumber,
They recognized its falseness and desired its beauty.

27. So be patient if you hear an evil tongue
From a beloved son, and restrain your own tongue.

28. For the roses from the bitter salt,
You came to drink it and knew its bitterness.

29. Had it not been for the weakness of neglectful spirits,
We would have neither rejoiced nor grieved from it.

30. The kings of Ghassan passed away,
Nothing of the kingdom was left for them to grieve over.

31. The horseman of Persia filled every shepherd,
With gloom towards the decrees that stalk it.

32. Its boulders were struck down by the weapons of Fahrs,
So those are its meadows made into signs.

33. They melt pearls with all sorts of things,
When the waters are from a brackish well.

34. Livestock guarded the kingdoms vigilantly,
So their misfortunes overwhelmed those who guarded them.

35. The travelers complained of sleeplessness,
Due to specters unrelieved of their restlessness.

36. How often did the nights' insomnia on my temple
Cut off the pillows from sleeping or napping!

37. Your passion is like an untamed horse,
And you have not reined it in so handle its bridle!

38. Do not be enticed by a pasture whose clouds
And branches touch it at the break of dawn.

39. Nor lips that smile despite a hidden pain,
For in their charm a spy is concealed.

40. The small birds enjoyed a place of rest,
Then how can the delicate endure if it is touched?

41. Where are those who say immoderately,
Did they refrain from speaking or have they become mute?

42. They filled the eras with talk,
And were made to be silent without emitting a breath.

43. Did you not see my chest’s doves
Whom I never wed though they aged?

44. I did not bring them out to a companion
When the light of the beasts lit them up.

45. The horsemen said an ally of asceticism
While the assumptions were wrong in what they investigated.

46. I accepted the hardships of my hopes so they became
Horses grazing in their pastures it lit up.

47. I did not turn away from pleasures except
Because the best of them stealthily left me.

48. I did not see any good in the gathering of people
So who can sweep it away if it is piled up?

49. The guiding stars disappeared from us
So people mingled in darkness it crushed.

50. Happiness can come without invitation
So it lights up if you tread on it unknowingly.

51. Favor is divided until even rocks
Are visited, touched, and sought after.

52. Like the Sacred House or the Two Corners of Quraysh,
While their nests are stones made smooth.

53. A delegation performs Hajj at the Station of Abraham
While so many examples of his position were tread upon.

54. The ignorant took omens from sneezes
Whether they were suppressed or emitted.

55. The lifespans of those who died young
Were like worn clothes never worn.

56. To those lying still and buried,
There were elders in their graves erased away.

57. Neither Canopus nor Suhail cared
For good news from Yemen to infiltrate them.