1. Our days were nothing but gifts
And with the help of the beloved you were gifts

2. We will become strangers again to renew your era in crying
For you were nothing in the days but wonders

3. And a battlefield for yearning that infatuation brought
To the infatuated, the tender-eyed youth were gazelles

4. Young women visited on short nights
Their beauty seemed to me to be young women

5. They took away the cover of beauty from free faces
That remain for those who stole them, plunderers

6. Faces that if the earth had planets in it
They would shine for the sublime, and be planets

7. Ask if I inhabited the expanse while it had mirages
And I left my land from my mounts and mirages

8. And became estranged until I did not find mention of an east
And I became eastern until I forgot the wests

9. Misfortunes, when I faced them, repelled me
Wounded as if I had faced disasters

10. And whoever did not surrender to adversities
His manners became rebellious adversities against him

11. The sword named death may deceive
And the triumphant man may return defeated

12. The affliction of that one is that he does not encounter a blow
And the affliction of that one is that he does not encounter a striker

13. And I was filled with sorrows that ambition concealed
As I inclined towards the highest resolve, setting and declining

14. I witnessed the greatest heights while it was absent
And even if it were also present, it would still be absent

15. We emulated its processions which made
Of grief in the barren land, processions

16. I cast my determination to it as if
I had disturbed a star in the universe, piercing

17. And I was a man who met time peacefully
But I came to only meet it as an adversary

18. If its manners were divided, you would not find
A blemisher or a manners among people as fault-finding

19. If you wanted to count its generous palms
Then be a writer or employ a writer

20. Its gifts are the achievements except as a sign
That called those achievements and those gifts

21. It is the rain, if I exaggerated intentionally in describing it
I would lie in my praise of it, and I was no liar

22. Its wealth plundered the heights so the obligatory alms
Imposed on it what was not obligatory

23. You look good in its eyes if you are a visitor
And look better whenever you come seeking

24. The cheek of heights made giving and piety
Consequences from a custom that consequences sufficed

25. The consultations of experiences lengthen its opinion
When those of sound judgement consult experiences

26. I am innocent of hopes while there are many
With you, even if they come to you inclining and desiring

27. Was I ever but a sinner the day I turned
Away from you to hopes and so I came repenting