1. Shall I find respite from love's torment, and awaken?
Or shall I show patience with passion and endure it?

2. Passion has wearied the blamer - if it holds sway,
It softens hearts and shackles necks.

3. They mustered censurers, and its banner waved;
It severs covenants and rallies longings.

4. The finest of knights, the one who bears the standard,
Sweeping away the wicked and aiding lovers.

5. When love knew war, it ventured boldly into it
And set out eagerly racing ahead.

6. It denied the slanderers dwellings and loved ones,
And protected the truth - both neighbour and friend.

7. Patrol the guardians - do you see any rescue
Except where you see blood copiously shed?

8. And glory is recognised for its sweetness
By one who finds death in it sweet to taste.

9. And I see greatness refuses to be addressed
Until souls are for it sincere friends.

10. Not equal are those who took life by right
And those who took life by hypocrisy.

11. It casts aside pretence and hypocrisy - wares
That tempt the merchants and thrive in markets.

12. Until, when certainty is clear, they steal away,
A band frightening tempests by their fleeing.

13. For men, deception is a trade
That breeds ruin and begets failure.

14. Truly, I have seen none like the pretentious one
Who hopes to join the noble ones.

15. He forgets his father, and if the earth would obey him
He would hasten to his masters, desirous.

16. He comes and goes in the shade of their palaces,
Neither complaining of trouble nor fatigue.

17. They are not like those who possessed souls and exhaled them -
The evil of torment and the burdens of slavery.

18. It shook its wings, intending the palace of Qushaym,
Who possessed the heavens and overshadowed horizons.

19. Eagles abandon their distant flight to it
And shy from its gusts in awe.

20. God has blessed the builders and increased
Their glory and made their eminence shine brighter.

21. With every valiant act, he establishes for his people
Nobility extending high above the stars.

22. While the fainthearted complains in every limb
Of a tether and bonds.

23. He cannot manage more than talk, and no one sees
In what he raves any substance.

24. He gave what he could, and indeed
Gave only ink and set up pages.

25. In every letter a sanctuary or refuge,
Frustrating the cunning and the adept.

26. Had He wished to add to the seven strata
He would have established ten atop them.

27. Not equal are those who carried souls nobly
And those who carried faces disgracefully.

28. The love of a land belongs to those who stand by it
And to those who establish virtuous morals for its people.