1. Abu Hasan, how much I blame separation
And my fate makes it be far

2. How much I prolong sleep until I see you
And prevent my eyes from sleeping

3. So to me in them it has become a habit
That teaches my sleep to wander

4. My excuse from the Romans, the neighbor of separation
Wronged me by a judgment of his and transgressed

5. I called you from their land suffering
So you let me drink from that channel

6. And you tied your soul tightly to me
Until I ceased to find

7. So neither was their promise what revived
In it hopes, nor what cooled

8. Perhaps this long stay of yours
Will be for their appointed time

9. So their patriarch may come out Muslim
And make their church a mosque

10. So their ruler will know that they
Incited against you the enraged lion

11. And you had come to them conciliatory
Yet by their ignorance were corrupting

12. So if they demand from you return to the country
Then the nearest has joined the farthest

13. And if they attempt to hurt you
Then they initiated breaking the bones

14. And you told your people who thought your
Stay with them was eternal

15. So their humiliation in animosity exceeded
That to which they were accustomed

16. And if you were not an intercessor for them
Then from where did you become their master

17. Your father was their father, and were it not for the light
The full moon would not have surpassed the barely visible star

18. Goodness to me when I was sick
I would conceal it out of habit

19. And there is passion in fervor I do not take help
With other than you, happily fortunate

20. I want to conceal but the intermediary
Exposes it whenever he chirps

21. I regretted like al-Buhturi regretted
And exceeded him in the distance of scope

22. So without my love the breeze blew in vain
It would not have found its way

23. So is there in your view a strategy
That would help a lost wanderer

24. For long your hands have saved me
And the ropes of firmness have attached me

25. And you have borne your money that cannot be borne
So you were best in easing its difficulty

26. By God, I perceive no rain but you
Either your friendship or the echo