1. He saw the separation standing as an eloquent sermon
That melts hearts so tears flow

2. Likewise the day of long separation
Will unleash the tears of quick eyelids

3. Relay from my eyes a slumber
For lightning has unsheathed a painful sword

4. Had the eyelids not resembled eyelids
They would not have become, after water, a fountain

5. My nights in you I wore patience
And in you my chastity became corrupt

6. The beauty of the cheeks of Arak's branches
I see doves upon them alighting

7. Had the inanimate not caught fire from your coyness
The flashes would not have dyed the branches

8. I would not forgive the sin of rejection
If your eyes had not interceded

9. Oh, how I wish the whims of the beloved
Had left my patience altogether

10. She called me one extinguished nightfall
So I was awake while my companions slept

11. I became restless for her and sent imagination
Does a specter come except to the desolate?

12. The era of youth and tranquility has passed
And who can go back to what is gone?

13. When the suns of youth set
Even if God granted a rising sun

14. And they said you cried, and indeed I cried
Since separation created this rift

15. My eyelids divulged the secret of humility
I had not before been a disseminator of secrets

16. I have not stopped since I fell in love with beauty
Weeping over its dwellings and meadows

17. If you must be lovesick
Do not love beauty except the unique

18. Two neighbors brought time closer
To this frequently visited shrine

19. How many commands did I disobey
If my heart found me compliant

20. I betrayed a treacherous cheat
Yes, and preserved confused sorrows

21. If I controlled the ruling of passion
And if love allowed me to prevail

22. Separation would not have wasted my frail body
Nor would parting have shattered my frightened heart

23. I resist time, my brother
Indeed, I have cast the formidable and impregnable

24. He who contends with fate under the yoke
Its nights are uncovered for him as a slain

25. So, after me, the spring breeze will not dance
Nor will the specter of imagination flutter

26. They blame me for panicking over misfortunes
I was never panicked by misfortunes

27. Time does not debase
Status except the noble, or guide except the eminent

28. I sufficed with a day of joyous reunion
I was never content with a year from you

29. Is there a cure for the malady of separation?
For it has gouged the heart gouging and pain

30. Nothing but grief did that distance cause
Nor did that nearness cause anything but agony

31. My nights, requite the water of my eyes upon them
And ignite from us ribs aflame

32. I accompany the body only infirm
Melting, and the eye only with tears

33. I find time only gloom
Even if the horizon rises with a brilliant dawn

34. The Almighty allowed violation of my protected sanctuary
Though it had been forbidden to him