1. As long as the ships of passion sail with me,
Neither my reason nor my experience benefit me.

2. Passion's concealment left with the love of one who enraptured me.
It kindled the flames in my entrails and lit my blaze.

3. O reproacher! Don't you know that when it comes to the beloved,
I do not hear anything unpleasant about him?

4. My eyes are preoccupied with the beloved while my ears
Are heedless of any blame or rebuke regarding him.

5. Leave off what you use to sermonize me, for
You were not tasked with reforming me or educating me.

6. You were mistaken in blaming me, for my misfortune
Is from the arrow of a glance that pierced my heart.

7. No time passed sweeter than that
For which I would gladly suffer torment.

8. Days when the garden of beauty was not denied me
And the rose cheeks were my portion.

9. I plucked flowers from it while no fear of a dubious
Intimate moment could stop our connection.

10. Instead of being near my beloved and content,
I got anger while meetings were no longer expected.

11. O you who stopped visiting his love-sick one,
Fearing the slanderer or the watcher's eyes.

12. What could they say after they have seen
My passion and heard the excess of my wailing,

13. Other than spread rumors that you are my killer?
They speak true, for you torture me yet are my beloved!

14. Have mercy on a lonely lover consumed with love for you,
O finest of the strange and strangers to the strange!

15. If not for you, I would not say "Pour down my tears
And melt, my liver, from his fires!"

16. The sickness in my body grew
From the flow of my weeping and pouring tears.

17. I went astray knowingly as my tears did not guide me,
Raging without being extinguished by my blaze.

18. My tears and your right to meet implore you -
How could fulfilling my request harm you?

19. Between you and I is a relationship of passion,
So keep the pacts of whispers and intimacy.

20. You have no excuse denying the longing lover,
If you made the joining forbidden.

21. You were unjust when you favored another
And turned away from him. If only your separation would teach me patience!

22. You exceeded in avoiding me, knowing that I
Do not seek consolation in anything but you.

23. By God! I have no release from loving you
Except by praising the Chosen Beloved.

24. The Gatherer, Most Merciful, Watcher, He
Who erases the symbols of idolatry and slander.

25. With miracles, every person of insight
Accepted their correctness, guided by them.

26. The sun shone for people but did not rise
Except upon the blind and the veiled.

27. The full moon split miraculously for him
And with it came victory before setting.

28. With the conquest of Mecca, he forgave those who erred,
So they came to him receptive and awed.

29. He eliminated what they worshipped of idols
With firm belief, the Cross and all.

30. He made the tyrants drink cups of death, hastening
The fading of rage from the believers' hearts.

31. No coats of mail or sturdy armor protected them
From the stabs of spears amidst wars' drums.

32. The inanimate spoke at his hands, and water gushed
As if pouring from a spout.

33. He returned the lost eye just as
The sun returns after sunset.

34. What virtues that exhausted all counting -
No devoted preserver could enumerate!

35. O master of messengers whose way
Contains the perfection of merit and propriety.

36. You ascended bodily to the heavens and its
Angels greeted you with welcome.

37. You then rose up, drew closer, then attained what
No one else was worthy of reaching.

38. You were granted the privilege of intercession,
Your praised position and beloved abode.

39. On Resurrection under your banner raised,
You are the most sublime as prophets gather.

40. Your Lord loves you for your praises by which
You are given whatever you wish.

41. He says, "Speak, you are heard. Ask, you are given.
Intercede, your intercession is accepted for the sinners' sake."

42. So intercede for your praiser who, thanks to you, fears
The terrors of Judgment Day and the torment.

43. For Ahmad ibn Ali al-Athari deserves
The fruits of praising you, however strange.

44. It is true his sin brought sickness while his provision
Increased. And you are the best doctor.

45. May Allah bless you and grant you peace, you who
Were given immeasurable virtue and favor.

46. And your family, companions, each and every one
As long as the recommended follows the prescribed.

47. Every insightful ocean of merit seeking
The truth, righteous and refined.

48. How delightful their praises made their praisers!
The neglected longed for the beloved.