1. Stand at the abodes, even if the standing grieves you,
And ask the dwellings after us, who lodges there.

2. And if you come upon my heart amongst them one day,
Then ask it, when will it cease to linger.

3. A quarter I turned my eye from it months ago,
Yet my heart from it an hour does not turn away.

4. It had been my abode, so it became my torment,
A home for him, with its courtyard he wraps himself.

5. And by the side of the sandy valley, a people whose
Rights upon us preserved, are not lost.

6. Their friendship comes close from afar,
And its health increases with time ever throwing.

7. Brothers of sincerity, in brotherhood you see they have
Hardship, but in it there is no affectation.

8. I continued to blend with tears their remembrance,
Confusion, as though blended with perfumed water.

9. O you who made distant the eye of the distant with the drawing of what
Was with it the ear of the near is delighted.

10. A spell upon the breaths from you is sealed,
In secret, so that is with amber enveloped.

11. If you are Jacob the lover, excellent is what
You are called, but who is your Yusuf?

12. You made true to me in description what I do not claim,
And you knew for me in love what I do not know.

13. This is a sheet from those whose eyes
Wish that it within the sheet letters.

14. A youth almost flew with it to you,
In it more gentle than the breeze and kinder.

15. She raced me so outsped me, and how much
You used to be stronger in racing while I am weaker.

16. If about the right of loyalty I fell short,
Then the merit is in the fairness of one who is not fair.