1. O innovator of love, your love has entangled me
With excuses I have cast arrows at you

2. People are infatuated with you, my love
Like a herd of gazelles fleeing with laughter

3. Your cheeks are adorned like brocade
Bewitched by magic and beauty, excellently stitched

4. By Allah, beauty is none other than the beauty of excuses
So look, even my gaze deceives you

5. The line of his excuse is only beauty
O Lord, I hope for the one with the divine book

6. O full moon, you came to conclude beauty
Musk came to conclude the beauty of your smile

7. I swore by a line like twined branches, your cheek
Came adorned like a wreath with two gardens blooming

8. There is nothing in you but your breaking of the pact with me
So do what you wish, for my heart desires only you

9. I lived a morning with you, O you who appeared like the morning
And the night is good, safe from harm

10. Whatever pleases you, increase for me if I increase affection for you
I do not know anyone who claims to love you and yearns for you more than me

11. You were a full moon lighting up our night
And today, how many crescent moons are deprived of seeing you?

12. Was it wise to boycott someone like me
O love, and be led astray by what you were warned against?

13. Suppose my watcher over you were like me, utterly devoted
Who distracted you from me? I have every right in this matter

14. I have endured the bitterness of envy in my affection
It would not have healed were it not for you

15. I entrusted you with the sapling of love to bear fruit
I did not expect hatred would make you recoil

16. If this is the punishment for one who loves you
I ransom you - tell me, have I left anyone but you?

17. I sing while I am a nightingale within you, so listen
To the echo of my singing and let your ears delight

18. Do not listen to the claims of others, for we are not equal
Your fading away and the falsity of what he claimed has deceived you

19. If you were fair, you would know that I
Am utterly devoted to you, while they all spite me out of envy

20. O branch, even if you do not soften to my reproach
There is no excuse in spreading your complaints

21. I complain of you to the one whose pleasure even kings seek
The one who surpassed all creation with his generous essence

22. From the progeny of Abu Bakr the imam, imam
Of happiness, virtue and guidance, an angel

23. The one of high station, I mean the father of gifts, my master
Extending kindness to humanity forever and magnanimous when you meet him

24. You will find his overflowing sea does not ebb
Like clouds bursting, take him as a sword

25. And seek his council and protection, and take him as a sword
Above all swords - O father of gifts, you have enriched me

26. If you come to him fearful while being a lover
There is no escape, the lion of the den will not let you flee

27. O sea of the Al family, O cloud of bounty
Blessed is the patron who came to you and befriended you

28. My master, forgive my many sins, for none pardons them
Love has abandoned me, and little is my patience

29. From one like you, O son of nobles, I gained success
And more pride - so increase, as your patron increases you

30. God has made you a full moon among your kin
You remain illuminated thereby, and they are orbiting planets for you

31. A sword trembles for you, wielded gently or harshly
Like the lethal sword of your grandfather

32. O family of that imam who surpassed - you have succeeded
Though my praise falls short, for grasping your full glory eludes me

33. Praise cannot match glory, only reaching you
You are the jewels of the universe, praise but seeks you

34. Perpetual blessings and peace be upon the Master of Mankind and upon you
With pure angels

35. No secret of love transcends the heart of a lover
There is no shame in love, nor are angels ashamed