1. May God reward me for the ugliness of my face with happiness
Just as He has rewarded him, and God is All-Powerful

2. I frightened people with it, so they paid protection money
As if I was their ruler at that time

3. A nobleman ransomed himself from the ugliness of my face
A minister whose father was a nobleman and a minister

4. So let not Qasim cut off my livelihood
For he has no claim on me other than being my guard

5. I knew his nature and that was his habit
And I denied his estrangement which was unwarranted

6. The duration of what happens and his absence
Prolongs the short night for me

7. Seeing him is more important to me than what
Comes into his possession and passes

8. So do not make estrangement your habit, for it
Is worthy of perfecting what was initiated for me

9. Otherwise, why would I need his company
When I am devoid of anything less than it

10. Is there really a blessing for there to be affection?
Is there really a meadow for there to be a brook?

11. Everything plentiful is paltry before his face
And everything great other than it is petty

12. His gifts distract me from seeing him
And his company, I am thus being deceived