1. What harm if he bid farewell or took leave,
He who entrusted to my heart which entrusted him

2. He was jealous of my glance on the day we parted,
Why did he not honor my pledge as I honored it

3. He took away the camels and left me behind,
So I asked the relics of stone about them

4. And he ceased not to wander every hillock,
A day, nor bend down to it deceitfully

5. And my heart departed after him,
So I weep for him while my heart is with him

6. I adjure you, O breeze of the dawn,
If you come in your wandering, bare

7. You have plucked from its branches only witheredness,
And you have heard from its betrayal only lies

8. Pass by the valley gently,
And convey my greetings to that pasture

9. And tell her that I remain true to
My love, if he is faithful or unfaithful

10. O you who ask me how the taste of passion is,
By God, how sweet and how bitter!

11. It is as if my ribs contain a lightning
That flames when a roaring cloud thunders

12. It is as if my tears, when the pangs
Of passion seek help, run to aid

13. The raccoon eyes on my cheeks
Do whatever they want to do

14. The army of the Banu Nasr, kings of the world,
A people when the summoner to an ordeal calls

15. Caliphs whose glory branched out
High in majesty and spread in following

16. A house standing on the foundation of guidance
Which God has given permission to be elevated

17. Lands of truth whose people struggled against injustice
And made its lands submitted

18. Seek testament in its land and you will find
At every hilltop a place of death

19. If fate assaulted a people who defended,
Or if days stumbled, they said: Refuge is in God

20. Or if you came to them in barrenness, seeking drink,
They poured on you rain laden clouds

21. And if you knew the people you found them
By God, how rightly guided and how virtuous!

22. In the heat of war, lions of evil,
And in the darkness, kneeling worshippers

23. The stars of earth and its lights
Their west has become their east

24. It suffices them that they gave birth to Yusuf
The purest, most splendid king

25. A king of boundless generosity, who poured forth dew
More beneficial than rain or clouds

26. He united the hearts of the people through justice
And his favors dispersed what was united

27. Delegations hasten eagerly to him
From the farthest reaches of the horizons

28. Until when they saw his face
Sight of him verified for them what was heard

29. He surrounded the lands of God after
The wind of injustice shook them to their foundations

30. And the hearts of all people beseeched through him
And God, Sublime is His Name, is Hearer of prayer

31. So He protected it from the passing of misfortunes
If it intended destruction or trembling

32. He unsheathed the swords and pulled the spears
And made the enemies drink what they made others drink

33. O champion of the faith, protector of guidance
If an ordeal befell him or alarmed him

34. I have no words to match what you have bestowed
Even if I become the most eloquent of tongues

35. So meet the days joyfully,
And reap the harvest of victory for it is ripe

36. And enjoy the celebrations of Nayrouz,
Its gates have been opened wide

37. You remain the pillar of exalted rule, the summit of glory,
As long as pilgrims circle the House or traverse the hills