1. A phantom from the distant beloved, the obsessed love
It walked away, and determination to endure walked away from it

2. It called the rain until when it responded
It circled the eyelids made sleepy

3. So it stayed conversing with the star until it was as if
It confided to its eyes the totality of the night of blindness

4. When infatuation took hold of the core of its heart
It bent its longing like two feathered arrows straightened

5. The face of misery appears to it and a downpour descends upon it
With no specific aim in increasing remoteness

6. When sleep meets the eyelids they are divided
The hatreds of renewed, recurring love

7. My blamer, I have not been harsh in blame
That appeared with advice from your conscience, so head towards me

8. Without the determination of a person, a happy anxiety came
And a heart, if longing turns away from it, it shrivels

9. And a flock of sorrows that fold the breast
To a sunrise, whoever faces it recoils

10. It sent to its female companions a greeting
With glances, testimonies of denial witnessed

11. So when a downpour came down and love walked
With them, and the whisper of the patient lessened

12. They forgave it quickly, so their necks rose
With a carpet slipped from them, the robes cast down

13. One evening, the fervor of longing departed and withdrawal remained
In its witness, the rest of my resolve and my banner

14. The fates brought it wisdom, so it returned
To a purpose, from one affliction to one wavering

15. It schemes through it to conceal the sincerity of love
A setting with flocks of tears gathered

16. To you, trusted by God, the sands have turned against us
The girls of separation, in every path straightforward

17. The journeys anchored in you and the deserts blameless
Hopes of the heedless have tossed you among them

18. The journeys have taken it like the violent taking
Their steps quickened by them, while the star wanders guided

19. So when the night cleared away for the morning, and it met it
With a border from its scattered dawn

20. They wore the darkness until the stars of night poured out
Like scattered ashes poured by the hand

21. Its resting place is atop its saddlebags
When the touch of pebbles prevents every arid waterbag

22. And a road blocker, frightening
As if upon its sides a sharp sword

23. Rebellious winds upon the traveling party, defying every patched waterskin
Shortening the sight along its expanses

24. The squinting of Sufyan upon them and frost
Girded with instruments, it is as if they are

25. Men sitting in an effaced refuge
When it moves them, and the echo stands

26. Upon the melodies of singing partridge
I reached its furthest part to you, and beyond it

27. A reaper of the necks of the long-necked ostriches
With the dialect of a letter that renews its meadows

28. The meadows of journeying and the blazing planet
When one pebble strikes, it hurls it

29. So it hurls into another, even if not intended
The she-camels knelt down to you, married

30. Upon a hope for white-robed answers to call back
The events appeared to it until when it attained

31. Your hope, they turned away from it from a near place
You stood upon the path of conjectures, so they were honest

32. And every wandering outcast brought the judgment to you
When the passions of a people differ, you unite them

33. Upon pardon or the edge of the sharpened sword
When they crawl, concern for them becomes evident

34. And if they rebel, they become prey of an onlooker
With every swimmer in the deep water, it is as if

35. Its wings enveloped them like a hidden feather
When they bent to the darkness with spoils

36. The journeys divided in every plain and hill
It is as if the palms of the people were bent and straight

37. Were exchanging presents upon the back of a turtle
They greeted with the edges of the spear and embraced

38. The embrace of hatred, not affection
And you surprised it before the threat with its death

39. While the sword and spear failed against it
And it feared you until it came to suspect wishes

40. And blame the whispers of the soul in solitude