1. O night, the watcher has slept but the stars have not
The wings of the doves, their shining star

2. If the green is a blooming garden
Then its starry flowers may be blossoms

3. And people are like plants shown by life
And the first of their destruction is exposure

4. One shepherdess tends them and strips their cloak
Another exposes their daisies and spring flowers

5. What distinguished the ghosts in their forms
For the eye a dissolution of birth and violation of honor

6. Ignorance prevails over most knowledge that we
Perish while the One, the Subduer remains

7. It's as if the sons who are as motes
Are chaste people, I won't say skilled

8. If only Adam had divorced their mother
Or forbidden her to him as wife

9. She bore them in other than purity, mating illicitly
So purity is lost among them

10. I have a secret that cannot be told
Hidden from the sighted though it's daylight

11. As for guidance I found it among us
Secretly but misguidance openly

12. And adversity shows the noble one virtue
As musk, its diffusion is raised by investigation

13. So forbid your honored but sinning wife, struggling
And suffice not to select in-laws