1. There were people who thought I was the epitome of literature
And I was greatly esteemed and respected among them

2. Until you met them and they saw
You who observes so closely

3. So they adopted your opinion and lost
Their admiration for me; my nature became odious to them

4. I hoped for life from you but you disappointed me
Completely, yet your lightning struck me

5. O Solomon, I thirst
The aqueducts have been cut off from you

6. I have grown old so permit the separation
And prepare for departure

7. My eyes have divorced you with divorce
Divorce, divorce, divorce

8. I have wasted you, three
Seizing by the throat

9. So wear the garment of despair from the man
And seek repayment of the dowry

10. We are a people who have
No piety for the patron

11. We eat meat and throw
The mattresses of Iraq

12. After drinking wine, what care we
For sweeping the street

13. With you we have exchanged refusal
So leave the door of hypocrisy

14. And we were tempted by slave-girls
Among them, well-proportioned

15. And we were passionate for the branches
Among them, slender and delicate

16. So cease your running and surrender
That to the freed horses

17. You are content when you race
To follow up from behind

18. So be patient, O love of my soul
Every full moon is for loss

19. And when patience fails you
Then fetch the water of aqueducts

20. And weep the days of a life
Of which you are in a race

21. We have walked in your streets
And we have preceded in your domains

22. The racers among your companions
How often she made me drink from your cup

23. The large draft
Sometimes she would glance toward morning for us

24. Leg to leg
In a face veil and gown

25. Of fine wool
The freshness of your cheeks has gone

26. And nothing remains
So stick to the beard and know

27. That this is a time of senility
This illness of yours is from nothing

28. But prolonged passionate desire
Where is the mighty sultan for you

29. In the land of Iraq
You were in a kingdom of refusal

30. Feared for your firmness
Your injustice there erased

31. Every right and justice
Your kingdom did not satisfy

32. The King of the seven layers
So he cast it down with removal

33. Or shocked it with splitting
The pleasures have fled you

34. On the back of the Burāq
So ask about us, for she has quenched us

35. From you with sweetened drink
You were something but then faded away

36. And nothing remains
And we found you sweet

37. But left you distasteful
You were rational with lovers

38. So your passion made you irrational
Then excuse what is past

39. For nothing ascends to the stars
You will not see a stance of ardent

40. Yearning upon hot coal
No, not a soul of a loving one

41. Climbing among the Pleiades
Release your prisoner, he of might

42. From that bond
No passion remains in him for you

43. Except pretense
Taste the punishment of excuse, and know

44. That it is unceasing
We have consumed you delicious

45. Sweet and pleasant taste
And spat you out disgusting

46. Though separation is not hated
The best of your conditions is to submit

47. From the illness of barbers