1. The days of a lover are few,
With a heart preoccupied from blame, busy.

2. He is blinded by the blame of the obsessed with passion,
And the most afflicted thing with the lover is separation.

3. Do you see - is there for me any salvation from the agony of love
When the ropes of love have grown into me?

4. Between the dwellings of maidens and I
Are blazing wars that rage and loom.

5. They attacked my heart with an army of passion,
And the flirting gazelle chased away the flirtatious.

6. He deliberately struck with the hitting arrow my warriors -
Oh! All my limbs are to it warriors.

7. By Allah, I have not been negligent in seeking exaltation,
But it is as if fate is oblivious of me.

8. Appointments of days that procrastinate me with them
Aiming of eras and a life that fights.

9. The days drive me away from what I want
As the debtor drove away the insisting creditor.

10. My two friends - my goals are far to attain them
So is there in you two help for what I attempt?

11. My two friends - tie me onto your two she-camels
When the gray hair of dawn begins to appear.

12. The likes of me - who attained glories by himself
While most glories were inaccessible to him due to tribulations.

13. And not everyone striving of people attains
Nor every rider reaches glory.

14. Indeed whoever remains on the path of incapacity is disappointed
And whoever exhausts himself in vain reaches his goal.

15. And man is only where he puts himself,
And I - above the two skies - place it.

16. And for extravagance there is a squanderer, and for praise a collector,
And for evil a committer, and for good a doer.

17. Why do not valuables of men's families
Spend the night and morn in my hands as booty?

18. I judge among the enemies with sharp swords from it
I judge it among them when the descent is narrow.

19. And the protector of desires did not forcibly attain
Except what the eyelids made little.