1. When she sang in the garden, her singing inspired us
She understood the meaning of our sweet breath

2. Say to her, repeating the words that nourish passion
When one melody ends, she composes another

3. Have you not seen her sway like a willow in the orchard?
She became for it a branch among some of its branches

4. She saw us when the nightingales burst into song and we
Were aroused on those branches as we were aroused

5. The melancholy lute sounded, so she sounded
And sang to the viol's tune as it sang

6. She listened to the tambourine during its resonating
So she shaped for it from the beauty of her tune, an ear

7. The violin divided ecstasy unevenly
It shook her, but she did not keep its rhythm

8. May God protect that slender-waisted one - how she stirred up love
And how much she gave of her voice and how much she took from us

9. The radiance of her fair face shone at dawn
As the splendor of beauty shone in the beautiful garden

10. He brought her to me in the evening, and winked at me
So I said to him "For God's sake, give us more of her"

11. For is not the soul the spirit at its rising?
Make haste to bring her back, and keep her mixing away from us

12. We drank the wine of the beloved's memory
We were intoxicated by it before we knew lowliness

13. For her the moon is a cup, and she is a sun turned by
A crescent - and how it appears when she mixes its meaning!

14. Love of her called to us, "Am I not your Lord?"
So we said, "Yes we have come to Your sanctuary, we have come."

15. And she said, "Why is your heart obsessed
With her exalted world and fluttering sublimity?"

16. "And why do you strive to build the edifices
Of knowledge - you have stayed up late within its bounds?"

17. "By your life! Whoever strives to gain a merit
Has fought against the world - and died in it, grieved."

18. "He sees his drinking from it as a mirage, and his
Intellect as rationality for what he seeks - and weakness."

19. So I said, "Leave me be from talk of myths
For we are a people who love glory since we were."

20. "We have souls that refuse disgrace and rise
To the highest path, and have not sought the lowest."

21. "We have ancestors who trod the best path
And we walk in the traces of their footsteps."

22. "And there is no good in the world unless you protect with it
A generous one, and reap from your generosity, bliss."

23. "And there is no good in one who hoards wealth for prosperity
While his burdens remain and their owner perishes."

24. "Prosperity is nothing but restraint and piety
And a lasting achievement and harvested bounty."

25. "And a gaze that sees the happiest of people as an excellent
Youth, the greatest in esteem, the youngest in years,"

26. "The most generous of hand, the longest in arm,
The firmest in resolve, the most faithful in belief."

27. "He is the Hashimi who is illuminated by his opinion
When the night of misguidance becomes dark or is clouded."

28. "The pens of wisdom established for him in opinion
The position of sublimity - and they are from this, more sublime."

29. "He has books that suffice battalions in their evil
When recited they are for those after them, a fortress."

30. "Lines by which heads are raised in honor
How much distress have they uncovered, and how much grief dispelled!"

31. "By them he destroyed the army of tyrants, so they became
His prisoners, with no ransom or escape."

32. "And opinion is nothing but the leader of bravery
And every tomorrow for the kingdom is in itself, a pillar."

33. "He gathered men together by his very being
They did not unite, but entered implied."

34. "By his left hand, ease became flourishing
And the garden of Yemen thrived in his right hand."

35. "Among them are men, fierce lions in battle
Rescuers of lions - their affair, narrate about us."

36. "They have glowing jewels among the towering
Traveling, and they have become for explaining the path, a text."

37. "They bought everlasting glory with generosity and bounty
They left no condition unfulfilled, no loss unfound."

38. "Levels among them rose over the Messenger of God
Its chambers built upon the nobility of the two realms."

39. "How much for the Trustee of Revelation do the districts around their houses
Have access - and the secret of that meaning is apparent."

40. "None but those who sold themselves
To God willingly and truthfully for the best."

41. "Their father renounced the world
And was not of those who entered into miserliness and self-sufficiency."

42. "So O son of the Messenger of God, take her as unmatched
And she came to you striving - and she is like the beautiful, excellent gazelle."

43. "Congratulating you on both holidays - for the reward one time
And for the breaking of the fast another - singing."

44. "She saw you surrounded by people reverently
Not raising your head nor opening an eye."

45. "And why should she settle comfortably
In your hand so that she meets with tranquility?"

46. "You remain in an ever-returning holiday, ever-renewing blessings
Glory that does not fade away or perish

47. As long as the breeze blows and the
Suns of sublime heights shine - perfect in beauty."