1. If only when she bid farewell
She had taught you endurance, not yearning,

2. Let us blame our wrists, for we
Have not spoken since we knew parting.

3. How often round a cheek and waist
I would turn a necklace, and at other times, a sash,

4. As if beauty were musical instruments
Projecting from the chests pieces joined together.

5. She traveled from a full moon. When
She was brought together, the veil was the unifier.

6. And down the moon-like cheek of hers
Ran a teardrop; it was as if it split it.

7. A ruler who showed justice to us
However much it agreed with a sound mind.

8. Wisdom - if the vicissitudes of fate denied it to us
It would lack the wisdom of Luqman the Sage.

9. He scattered interpretation liberally like pearls
But dived into oceans of profound knowledge.

10. His hand was violently prone to money;
Whenever he associated, he desired separation.

11. Wealth escapes from his comfort
Dew taught it evasion.