1. Though my beloved is far from my sight
The meaning has settled firmly in my heart

2. A frightened gazelle that flees from intimacy
Yet the doe keeps its distance in her departure

3. I push her away though we both avoid meeting
For she is the full moon, veiled from visiting her abode

4. A beloved to my heart though she rejects me
If we avoid her, still her fruits are sweet to taste

5. I'm surprised that as my passion grows
So too my patience for this love increases

6. My eyes weep not though tears flood them
Her fire rages rather than being doused

7. With my madness she's provoked and stirred up my youth
Brought my time nearer though long I've waited

8. A girl of my tribe chided when I confessed it:
"Doesn't shame at your passion's disgrace show?"

9. She knew not that fate is filled with woe
No keen sword but nicks its sharpening stone

10. She would not accept my excuse for loving her
Except the Lord is pardoned, though an excuse is offered

11. She blamed the nights that scorn me in their darkness
One time's scorn diminishes glory and repute

12. Whoever is tyrannized by fate's injustices
Finds even kinsmen and neighbors keep their distance

13. My friend, though worldly things have distracted you
I've no use for a time that won't last

14. I'll be patient, for days hold sorrow and joy
The bright full moon may follow darkness

15. I will cling to the hopes of Emir Muhammad
That he will sate, give drink and shower them

16. Truly a doer and seeker of glory and excellence
Good fruits come from one who does good

17. He answers before being called, his blessings overflowing
Coming to you without waiting, fresh and abundant

18. He competes with cloudbursts in his generosity
His pride surpasses the glorious

19. He purposefully stills the dew then spreads it in praise
For good deeds only expand when dead

20. The prosperous tremble in delight when asked by him
His domain revolves around their comfort

21. When the valiant witness his swords they stand down
Like flashes and swirls stirring up no dust

22. Upon him the generous hearts pour out their contents
As the fortunate heart pours its edges

23. He unleashes a star of piercing arrows from his bow
Burning the enemy's wickedness with its sparks

24. The people's polestar in excellence throughout the world
Their orbit of kindness encompasses all directions

25. When gathering good among people like a sanctuary
His pulpit is their generosity, his minaret their excellence

26. They appear to those on high as mansions, and in the dew
As oceans, when kindness makes the seas rage

27. When I witnessed that generosity exists in them
With no goodness left in the days but refusal

28. You who in time, O son of Ali, are pledged
To fertile glory among its regions

29. I deserted even kin, loving you
Take my hand, for fate has been unkind

30. I hope for the life of ease in your company, now that
Its ascent and descent have worn me down

31. That I may rise to sublime, lofty glory, and whoever
Rises in your strength, his strength and triumph rise too

32. Your father who ruled time and its people
The great and small submitted to his lofty domain

33. He adorned himself with forbearance in time and wisdom
From which his severity and tenderness both came

34. He left, having made you ample stores for the world
No noble person dies if you remain his treasure

35. Nor were his days cut short, you being his branch
No day in time damaged its structure

36. His party members and virtuous ways were not wronged
The captive was not lost, nor vengeance unpaid

37. Give life, O eye of time, O guide of the world, rightly guided
And secure, your time's kin near you sheltered

38. Without you, poetry's themes are meaningless, though time
Adorns itself with them like day's pearls

39. When the breeze relates them, heated with passion
Their allure sways gently through its fragrance

40. Your gifts of them poured as a shower without cease
Their growth lush, their light and springtide spread

41. Your excellent praise adorned them as necklaces
Of glistening verse and scattering pearls

42. You remain famed for your virtues throughout the world
Repute alone makes virtue shine