1. Cease blaming, for you are not my first reproacher
How much youthful passion lingers that cannot be dispelled

2. Would you blame one whose heart is possessed by love?
Go away, for you are far removed from passion

3. O men, with zeal for an absent love
Who glance at the kohl-rimmed eyes of a gazelle

4. I looked and what shyness has not ceased?
I approached and what chastity has not humbled?

5. My eyelids are sick and their illness has afflicted me
In every limb and every joint

6. She walked away as dawn rose to part us
Brightening from a dark night of communion

7. And she was bashful with a stature, that if faced
The harshest decrees in tumult, they would not take effect

8. O mistress of the soft cheek and dust of the delicate waist
Come nearer and show tenderness

9. How can I attain your garden, when between us
Lances of glances in earnest throng?

10. Grant that I meet them alone
With my great resolves and the strength of my frame

11. For with what intellect can I meet you
When, if I glimpse your face unveiled, I lose all reason?

12. For you there is a special place in my heart
For you, dwellings that have not been humbled

13. O breeze, bear my words to her
And carry her words to me

14. For there we have pacts we have not forgotten
And there we have tokens we have not been heedless of

15. Where the beloved and her lover together
Are both branches between drawing nearer and drawing nearer

16. The branch is verdant, the time auspicious
And the matter earnest, the spy absent

17. Until when time shows its clouds
And its torrents flow into my dwelling

18. And its deceits appear, as if it were
The stubbornness of rock cascading from on high

19. It has tasked me with inviting youths
Whose taste is the sweetest, like water of fenugreek

20. You know not, O time, that I
Am a servant of Mohamed’s family and the people of Ali

21. Shall the servant of God ignore the call
Of one wary of the griefs of this time, while you are my aid,

22. And wrong befalls me, while your door is my recourse,
O son of those who race sublimely to the heights

23. And walk to the most virtuous station
And son of the trusted, holding fast to piety

24. And drinking from the first pool
They have, in glory, the loftiest rank

25. No platform has descended before them
The honored masters and guiding lights

26. Whose origins ascend to the most noble messenger
And eminent scions, the progeny of Ahmad

27. And the children of Ali, the contented Guardian
For you, o son, their greatest pride

28. Shining atop the impenetrable celestial sphere
Knowledge and wisdom and brilliance

29. And merits that have manifested and detailed clarity
And a hand that touches and is not miserly through the ages

30. And lasting, all-encompassing generosity
And virtues that are beautiful when heard

31. Cascading like gently flowing drink
Your eminent traits have wearied

32. The mind of the eloquent, articulate contemplator
For you are the source of every brilliant merit

33. And the axis of every praised and noble act
You have become singular in magnanimity

34. Called the best of the greatest and most majestic
It brings you joy, the children whose destinies are lofty

35. And whose hands flow like released torrents
Fair of face, noble in account

36. Keen of scent, of the finest stock
Their glories have spread over all the land

37. And their virtues have appeared to every hopeful
And it is enough honor for them that you are their father

38. For you possess the loftiest nobility
For you is protection and care for the land

39. A legacy – and what legacy has been accepted?
And for you are favors from me I have not forgotten

40. No, by the One God, the Singular, the Sublime
With them you graced me aforetime

41. Not to be ignorant among the people thereafter
And indeed for your promise I waited eagerly

42. Like the yearning of the archer for the sweetest spring
I do not hesitate in what you have promised and I did not say

43. Prolonged standing at the vestiges of the dwelling
Far be it from you to say to a visitor

44. “If you desire, Abu Mu’adh, then depart”
Rather humankind is distinguished by a state

45. Of heart-alarmed and urgent apprehension
So when you find, O father of bounties, a time

46. For my need, then accomplish and hasten
I have proposed, due to my hardship and necessity,

47. When I knew you as my refuge in adversities
I remain under your protected shadow, hopeful

48. For events and every perplexing matter