1. A glance wept while my heart refused to grieve,
My state after you is built on anguish.

2. O you who grew distant from my eyes yet still dwells
In my heart which does not change its passion.

3. I sought your nearness but obstacles increased,
Oftentimes the sought is hindered by the seeking.

4. I used to wait up for your phantom so sleep's messengers
Obstructed my orders with their veils.

5. My soul asked the spirits of morn secretly
For good news, enlivening its dried reeds.

6. My heart is delighted by the one it adores,
Yearnings are but means to elation.

7. Whenever a lightning flashed its flashes for me,
My eyelids watered from a spring and downpour.

8. Watering the sweet nights we shared in the past,
When life was moist, ripe fruit, O lush of moistness!

9. While Fate forgot our vigilance that we may
Seize the means of earnestness and play.

10. Do comprehend what estrangement dictated between us,
The work of enlightened minds, not of grapes.

11. Of every ornate ode deemed a necklace
Of pearls arranged on a thread of gold.

12. Melodic verses charmed as they flowed, relating
A body of spirit in a dress of seeds.

13. Meaning adorned their diction though composed
In the style of Europeans, not Indians.

14. How many glories in my heart extend
While rarely can one attain glory!

15. I milked my streaming eyelids seeking you
But how can one milk what milks not yield?

16. At times I beseeched days gone by
While determination rose as ability fell.

17. Mayhap the misery of nights necessitates bliss
Just as contentment may lie in wrath’s time.

18. My state expresses the inscrutability of its dialect
With a Persian sword, prince of Persians and Arabs.

19. He is rightly a lion, and harshest when enraged,
Magnanimous in gifts, son of a generous father.

20. Naught is more frightening to hearts if he
Strides with troops toward a stubborn foe.

21. When he pounces above the meteors, attainable to
His mount are the seven lofty orbits.

22. As if beneath his neighing he aroused
Lightning flashing in thick clouds.

23. The Exalted was attained by Ali's son over its summit,
Loftiness is attained by exalted nobles.

24. With feasts he substitutes for life
And with that he substitutes severer of desires.

25. If he saw what he receives of gifts
Delight would weary him and cease to please.

26. If he saw his stance in battle, while war
And striking assist ruin and war.

27. O you who surpasses wilds while still one with them
As if a stick of fragrant wood.

28. Be content with the feast and surrender forevermore
No longer enjoying might and repute.

29. In a state whose like no state resembles,
Subduing all stubborn, unyielding foe.

30. Draw against me a Immaculate blade and hone it
Until it gleams, potential harm in its edge.

31. Erase what they falsely wrote of me
The sword's tale more truthful than books.

32. My loyalty is wholesome, unspoilt by ill nature
For loyalty is my creed, fidelity my lineage.

33. I was created knowing no lewdness, honored
With no falsehood polluting sincere waters.

34. My company never doubts my integrity
While others are of manifold doubts and ills.

35. Have patience, each soul meets its reckoning
And transgression hastens transgressors' demise.

36. Still you provide safety for us watering place of the prosperous
Exalted at a spring of the sweetest drink.

37. Glory keeps you forever safe from encroaching gloom
Exalted, fulfilling hopes of the observers.

38. Forbidden all but your invitation.
Meet her with acceptance and she will rest assured

39. For she was not devoid of caution all along.
No description fully captured you throughout the eras,

40. Even if she related all past tales.
For you surpass the fortunate and the bold

41. And the articulate and eloquent are dumbfounded by you.