1. My stumbling upon you is not to be blamed,
Rather, the fault is in the words being said.

2. Trust in what I have confided of my love,
You slipped, but it will not slip away.

3. And the witness of emaciation has shown that
Other than sickness, love's claim is pretense.

4. O companion, leave me be from talk of talk,
Of the past - only embers and ashes remain.

5. Gently, with my tears, the memory of passion
Rouses it from the tether, as though.

6. O abode, no life has camped in you,
Nor has the wind of the north walked in you.

7. I thirsted when the rain clouds parted from you,
The downpours did not host you.

8. One who travels like a bending branch,
Or roams like the sun or wanes like the crescent.

9. And the whisperers whispered of him
And the scent of youth and the prime of life.

10. The full moon relates it along with merit and virtue
To the storyteller - eternally.

11. The sanctity of the maternal uncle - who forsook
A confidante free of worries for him.

12. Amazing is the lengthy stride of night,
When I cling to the tails of imagination.

13. An hour lengthened by estrangement,
And a night shortened by union.

14. My tears' ally with the troops of beauty
Vanquished my patience with the soldiers of longing.

15. The rising of the full moon, the tresses of twilight,
The posture of the branch, the gaze of the gazelle.

16. Sweet is the harvest, bitter is the reaping, and so
The cup appears - in it blend and moderation.

17. As if his cheeks and temples
Are the dawn of guidance under the night of ruin.

18. But by the covenant of love among its people,
And the honor of beauty and baseness of questioning,

19. Your gaze did not wander but to the doe of India
And your eyelids to nothing but arrows.

20. Your excuses are none but a heavenly garden
That meets you with peace and intends war.

21. Had it not been for your intercessors, wishes and love,
Your advisors, the morning breeze and the guide, would have failed.

22. You taught the morals of the people of time
Promises of nights, and prolonging hopes.

23. From one who broke a pact, who rejected
A affection - though I made it last.

24. He shortened his shade from me, and the missing
Beloved - who hopes for the shades to remain?

25. So avoid people, and be solitary,
For the orbits of this life are declining.

26. If Hassân came with his beauty
To complain of injustices - what adversity!

27. Do not blame, for in them the water rises to the hunters,
And in them there is no purity of stream.

28. From a hearer of slander, or a deceiver
With doubt, or a fabricator of impossibilities.

29. Their worldly forms have not been enriched
Except that their forms are for decline.

30. They inclined to defects, while the sword
Of religion distinguished itself among them with perfection.