1. I have made it a wand of generosity and power
A plaything of hope and despair

2. Paths with the turns of struggle and labor
Joys with the lifting of nobility and the cup

3. The dawn reminds me of its beauty
When its radiance permeates the air

4. And its hair and forehead appear before my eyes
When ink spills onto the page

5. It unleashed my burning desire
Against my patience lying in wait

6. So I moaned from the strain of illness
And my tears flowed from distress

7. May Allah give you gentle rains in times of drought
And hopes where I found nothing but despair

8. And a fortunate moon whose light
Set my heart aflame and quickened my breath

9. When you glance at me frowning
I say to a heart lost between us

10. O servant of the sun, can you today
Withstand the tyranny of the killer Abbasids?

11. I unleashed my passion
Confusing bliss and distress

12. The fires of my cheeks ignite the flames in my soul
And the madness of passion stirs obsession

13. My heart, be patient in love and self-controlled
For one who complains of illness while the healer despairs

14. The loose-sleeved robe trails
Over a handkerchief of a gloomy gloomy night

15. From his eyelids gazes the narcissus of the meadow
And his ears sharpen the parchment

16. By your life, I do not know when truth is confused with falsehood
If that is a north or a compromise

17. You have shaken my patience and I have not seen
A breeze that shakes a solid mountain

18. May Allah protect the sanctuaries of my youth
My school and my teacher

19. So meeting you was nothing but misery
Like the panic of a fleeing animal or a cunning thief

20. And they said, "You've gotten used to life without us"
So I patched my lies out of shame

21. Trust my loyalty as long as my limbs move
And I hold the reins tight as long as my senses remain

22. Do not blame me if I forget your pacts
If Allah lifts the burden from the people

23. My heart is rich in loyalty, and sometimes
Bankruptcy appears in my patience

24. May Allah grant me a throbbing, tormented heart
That sees no harm in death from love

25. Thoughts hover around it
As moths cluster around a lantern

26. I entrust my passion to the Merciful
And hold on to His protection

27. And I hope for Allah's kindness toward him
For He is more faithful to His covenant and more just in His measure