1. Tell the king who has slept from my wakefulness,
And whom my body and state have made ill,

2. You sleep while the star's eye is wakeful,
And my heart is more inflamed than one whose heart is frigid.

3. For love is where enmity lies, and the lion crouches,
If only we could share love’s decree.

4. Will you help me with an intention I have resolved?
In its winding path there is regret, in its winding path bounty.

5. The love of safety makes its owner abandon resolve,
When darkness and light are the same to him.

6. So if you lean towards it, make a tunnel,
You will make those I bid farewell regretful.

7. The humiliation of lowly life makes him lowly,
And I have looked at him while swords shed blood.

8. Highness has told me, and she is truthful,
That affinities among the immoral are blemishes.

9. I ventured in fortune, if I called one listening,
And made my words heard by one deaf.

10. Perhaps if my merit appeared, and their deficiency,
I would attain it with a generous steed, its back inviolable.

11. I blame the soul for hopes I seek from it,
If only your command was under our command.

12. I valued myself, recognized my worth,
Until I struck while the wave of death crashes.

13. I did not expect time to crawl over me,
The meteors of champions are equal in it to pebbles.

14. Deem your fiercest enemy nearer than your confidence in him,
So do not expect that the lion smiles.

15. Your good opinion of days working wonders
Is to consider fat on one whose fat has dried up.

16. If anything helps in their resolve,
What pain is there if wounds please you?

17. O you who came upon evil living whose purity is turbidity,
The worst thing man earns is what deafens.

18. So why do you oppose the sea’s billows and ride them?
While God dislikes what you do, and generosity.

19. O you expert on secrets, well-informed,
You are the adversary, the opponent, and the judge.

20. They have nominated you for a matter which, if you were aware of it,
The whites of India and motley would handshake on.

21. So be aware of implying a word I reckon
Was implied by a pearl, except that it is speech.