1. Leave me be from the talk of Zayd and Amr,
And quench my thirst between lute and zither.

2. Let go of blaming me today in my sittings,
For excessive blaming in that allures me.

3. And spare me from anger of he who wished to slander,
In scolding me and estranging he who persisted estranging me.

4. Indeed, he who cannot endure diminishes my livelihood,
He was not able to craft my lifetime.

5. Many a day I spent in happiness in it,
It is, by God, better than a thousand months.

6. My life is good in every night of drinking
That I intended for joy the Night of Power.

7. So we had a night of pleasure until
I left the light of the wine the rise of dawn.

8. With a gazelle whose eyes are from the family of Hārb,
When it appears and its face from the family of Badr.

9. It takes my love and mixes my comfort,
And shares my cup and recites my poetry.

10. In gardens as though the vine planted
Its strands the beauties of full moons.

11. Spring settled in it so the flowers reveal
Flames whose embers are torches of live coals.

12. And the narcissus with intense looks appears
Telling of gray hair above its head a fillet of musk.

13. So I called on the cupbearer for the time forgot,
"Hurry and circulate cups of wine!"

14. So he hurried with them and I said, "Pass them around,
You're no cupbearer nor crown of my pride."