1. No garden is like a tent's pasture
With its pegs extended at its edges

2. Its lights perfume the dweller
And its breaths revive the fallen

3. The silver smiles from its roses
As the gold steals its guardians

4. Dew dotted its fragrances
And its affliction left its leaves

5. The morning breeze stormed it
Confusing at once its varieties

6. Its length resembles its width
Its inability resembles its prime

7. Its steeds attacked for battle
And its horses neighed for race

8. As if it and its allies were virgins
When the avenger came for its chastity

9. I wondered at the battle I saw
On the earth's skin its scale

10. Do not fear its rods
The garden's griefs are its weddings

11. More wondrous than a presence in which is
The drinking of excellence by its sitters

12. Its orbits transcended the planets' orbits
And its minarets rivaled the galaxies

13. Quench its thirst, oh companion, by composing it
And its cup is free in taverns its paper

14. Abdullah knows it has shone
And its sociability is good for visitors

15. A human, the eye of glory, nay its eye
A diver in the sea of excellence

16. No desire parted from its thresholds
From a presence that intoxicated me, its cup

17. But I was engrossed in versifying
Which distracted the mind and its fancies

18. I know no drowsiness or good sleep
Except when its notebook is complete

19. Time has distracted me by involving me
And discouraged my soul from you, its bankruptcy

20. So excuse the father of prosperity and pride of the world
And the one who is chief of the sublime, its head