1. When you are on the sacred Euphrates shore
The best resting place for guidance and saddlebags

2. The scent of musk will guide you, and the day is sunny
The lights of villages call you to an oak branch

3. You will find domes, beyond them every ruined one
Of twisted huts, most oblique

4. And the blossom of the loose robe when it shrinks
At the plain of a companion or the stillness of a sitting

5. It shows you Luqman's wisdom in the wisdom of Al-Hannaf
And the speech of Quss under the wisdom of Hermes

6. If you wish, from its dew take a drink
Or if you wish, from its fire of guidance take an ember

7. And convey to the remote from me a visit
With the most fragrant scent of the blowing north wind

8. Abu Hasan receive it, the challenge of a poet
Eloquent, whenever he seeks to praise you, he is muted

9. I wrote when I competed with you in a gathering
That clothed me in pallor among the knights in armor

10. Yearning dwelled between my ribs and heart
And distance cast in my heart an arrow that pierced

11. Were it not for my fear and intense consciousness
On a paper from a carrier feeling his way

12. I would have poured out to you the longing latent within
And called, oh my overflowing chest, breathe

13. As the blossom smiled in a garden
And the serpent twisted above a rose and narcissus

14. As the precious necklace aligned with a ruby
Surpassing the description of pure pearls

15. Sweeter to the ears than the voice of one singing
And more delicious on tongues than saliva

16. To the right - so the youth that passed
Is not for one aged, nor wealth for the bankrupt

17. Nor sleep after vigil for one awake
Better than it in eyes and selves

18. I neglected my loyalty, and it the most faithful friend
And mixed my faith with the faith of a hypocrite

19. If I do not convey my soul's excuse for you
And I leave my praise in you, like one in awe