1. When the intimacy of union was scarce
With love in the darkness, a messenger I sent

2. And I asked the fates for a meeting
I did not know I had an impossible longing

3. The apparition prevented where it was not possible
To shut my eyes, so do you know a substitute?

4. I am like it seeking the highness
So the distance was indeed long

5. Realize for me the issues of love, but
My patience, your splendid beauty is proof

6. O hidden face of moons and a radiant visage
And the eyelids averted like an escort

7. You made the gardens happy
And granted garlands to the orchards

8. And exposed the branches to tenderness and kindness
So the bough leaned infatuated

9. Can the bracelet withstand your slender wrist?
Without it, I fear it would tilt

10. I wish what afflicted me from you afflicted
What killer killed with such patience as the killed?

11. Why did you cheat minds gently and kindly
And seize hearts forcefully and painfully?

12. Of you I complain to the darkness and the gloom
And of it I complain of you as a heavy burden

13. I envy the birds in the darkness of my yearning
So I borrowed their cooing from the doves

14. I connected it when good fortunes were disturbed
That he may respond to one similar to him

15. Whenever I asked permission of my wishes
Those fortunes forbade them from entering

16. And against fate, how often I unsheathed
Swords in earnest, yet they became idle

17. Worry distracted my thoughts
So it was oblivious of composition

18. And my talents have become the tusks of a coward
Who did not wet them with crimson blood

19. And the palaces witnessed by literature
Became from the palaces long abandoned

20. And from the people I have secluded in solitude
And was rewarded for my boredom with disgust

21. And if I found a noble master
I would become a happy and content servant

22. The ruler of sharia, the just judge, God
Did not appoint over the judges a equal

23. He mixed wisdom into his rule so I see
A saying straightforward, deed accepted

24. And in his criticism he has moments
Like a doctor examining a patient 

25. And with his palms open to favors
My wishes took from them a conduit

26. Of high station and shining lineage
A starry ascent and ancestral glory

27. And abundant knowledge and flowing literature
Indeed, you see the brilliant, noble one

28. The stories have not increased us in knowledge
We knew the origins from the branches

29. The meadow of his time bloomed by seeing him
A fruitful branch, most superior

30. People's love for him is generous
Garnering beautiful mention, beautifully remembered

31. Making his beloved's utterance in it
Hear the love stricken, infatuated one

32. So reflect on his days and nights
You will find them intimate conversations and tears effused

33. In the beddings of happiness from it, lines
That drew from the bosoms of hearts, chapters

34. Fate had with malice, bad events
Making the approach to them responsibility

35. And he came today with intercession for yesterday
And gave me my purpose hastily

36. You are my master, we did not ask God
For anything that he denied plentifully

37. Fate did not guarantee me until
You were the guarantor and the guaranteed

38. Even if I composed a book of pearls
In praise of you, that would be little