1. His heart has always longed for them
Then it became suspended by them

2. It seems my heart split me apart and it is right
For an estranged heart to yearn

3. O youth whose heart has become estranged
Tell the one who guided you to lead

4. The great extent of how far you are from them so depart
Silently leaving the pebbles trodden

5. So seek the heart and those who captured it
Making each obstacle an obstacle to impede

6. The fetters of ardour did not let me
Solve until I harbored intense yearning

7. Its fetters from him hung me
So undo them with his unsheathed sword

8. Whomever waits for prey patiently
When he sees it in his ropes writhing

9. Seeking God are my eyelids in the pre-dawn darkness
With my right and his unbound turban

10. The eye is forbidden the delight of the eye from
Tasting the sweetness of slumber but to taste

11. I do not wish for a safe satisfied dove
In it or a croaking raven shrieking

12. Woe to you, O critic of the beloved, leave off
Censuring him for a time, I sought more disobedience

13. By our Father, the conversation of the high-minded
And by the soul, his esteemed face

14. We accept the beloved even if he was not pleasing
To us, by his pact trusted

15. O you who taste bitterness, be patient
For surely after it comes sealed honey

16. O people of Al Nubakht, a hopeful one will not lack
So much morning rain from your clouding

17. So much good fortune from you at daybreak
It is enough misfortune at daybreak

18. Lord of the valley, after prohibition made lawful
So its overflow became permitted

19. You found generosity so its beholder
Became, by its traces upon him, feathered

20. The sky of your generosity rains
From your stream so it does not rain miserliness

21. Enough for you and woe to others, you left
Every free man by your actions plumed

22. What good do you see that does not
In the nudity of your cognizance become plumed

23. When you race in the expanse of wisdom
You leave the runners unable to catch up

24. You are measured by the traveling night journeyers and you
Still excel transcending, not transcended

25. Thus you are the exemplar for faces
And you are the zeniths of heads

26. You took the middle course and succeeded and moved forward
Warning an envier should he caw

27. Do not persist in defying the truth
Lest you transgress in ignorance bound

28. How many enemies of yours attacked you
And went to sleep with their fangs burning

29. So they took the ripening dates and it disdained
The other palm trees with buyers in the market

30. None look at it covetously or desire its fruit immature
O you seekers of good and evil

31. For in it are thorns and clusters
An enemy’s eye does not stop finding fault

32. So many of its people struck down
But God protected you and met

33. The raging floods with an impeding barrier
I did not say when I accompanied you after rising

34. You changed after the intention to rise
People specialize in what they undertake and what I

35. Deem praiseworthy in the like of you practiced
O Abu Sahl, who pastured in calamities

36. Not pursued or pursuing
But preceding to the distant goals

37. Among the honorable, not preceded
Who saw the clouds, their gifts

38. So he started plucking from them lightning
And saw it in the orbit of glory

39. So it started resembling it twisted
Whose full moon bedazzles the full moons

40. Not seen eclipsed or extinguished
And if an enemy desires him, he sees him

41. A mountain looming over his head extended
And if a loyal friend resorts to him, he sees him

42. Turning away exhausted in the kidneys, broken
And if a disputant clothes the truth in falsehood

43. He is the distinguisher, the Faruq
We did not experience the like of the downpour which

44. You showered upon us after dutifulness and disobedience
Neither shortcoming in generosity toward us

45. Except that the meeting became impeded
You left me a yearning for you

46. And a heart toward you pouring, longing
Strangely, the successor and the commander

47. Assigned the sea to dam the downpour
How can one hope for a generous man’s downpour to be dammed

48. Whose stream of generosity is gushing
A frightened one fears the remaining

49. Of torrents from his palm that would gush
To me belongs damming even if it can dam erupting

50. And proper for its channel to burst the dammed
It ripped through seas of seas and anchored

51. A towering mountain transcending peaks
It shook the water a shaking like Moses’ staff

52. So its pillars parted
Between its two seas is an isthmus like Riza

53. It clove the gushing so it ended cleft
And it bent the Nile to its rugged course

54. When it transgressed roaring noisily
O son of Nubakht, and son of his chivalrous sons

55. The branches resemble the veins thus
May we never lose you an upturner and overturner

56. Mixer remover of eruptions and swallowings
You would have taken the digging of the Nile’s canal

57. Like a Kameesha it imagines a sharpened bucket
Preceding dawn in its travel

58. Then only waking at daybreak
Keeping to its belly, you see it as a conduit

59. And you see its mud there formed
And you see the water wheels flowing in it

60. Musk they grind into powder
How many sweet ones your flood made overflow

61. Giving you in people a burning mention
Of what I related to your guest when I said

62. And settlement occurred in your vessels gushing
If you saw us in the belly of the Nile’s canal

63. You would have seen us fleeing exhausted
Fleeing from so much rescue that rescued

64. From severe thirst and cleared the choked
The water precedes and follows us in it

65. Released, its course streaming
However we faced it ascending there

66. We split cracks for it there
So when it dispersed in it, we escaped it

67. An enemy so as not to hurry catching up
And the sluices guide it to its channel

68. So excellent, it guided there
Strangely, that you flee it when it was filled

69. From the life’s vein and its market
Rather we would have guided it and it is

70. Fleeing from it and that was not proper
That we did the whole day until

71. It filled its belly, the cleft
If you saw it when its atoms rose high

72. Its waves left beautifully swaying
The work of an valiant one who sleeps and wakes

73. Exhausting his body overburdened
He donated his soul to the heights so its reward was

74. A position from which the stars branch out
O Abu Sahl, who pleased the observer

75. And the cooked from him is tastefully cooked
You have not ceased initiating and repeating favor

76. And by what you do, truth entitles you
No wonder the clarity of your affection for the comrades

77. When your tent peg is rammed
That nature refines from riffraff

78. Taking it exclusively, preceding
We read your beautiful prose

79. Deeming it a threaded pearl
And we examined your letter to me

80. So it became piercing and knotted
And that I am the beloved of your soul, you do not

81. Sleep or wake except longing for me
So we saw infatuation and heard

82. Eloquent logic, beautifully faced like you
If you are a lover of your servant you love

83. A lover you have not ceased to be the beloved of
And you are entitled to love not the dispraised

84. But I imagined you depriving me of provision
Except that when I contemplated your deprivation and affection

85. You made me worthy to be content
I am one whose love, if sincere

86. From it, has not been tasted
And as if I, when I inclined to you beyond the people

87. Passed to unsullied water cleft
By my life, you came to me fresh

88. Not brackish or saline or tainted
Constant in loyalty, the passage of days does not change you

89. When some fancied you as feeble
If I deny your favors upon me

90. Do not find me for them thankless, dishonest
That sun has for you a setting

91. And I encounter for it a rising
This is of things strange

92. When you shepherd matters two visions lofty
A sun rises in it and sets

93. And a west in which its dawn splits open
You are the one who clothed me in the finery of my adornments

94. And covered my bare bones exposed
And granted me in truth the authority of your loyalty

95. A lifelong pact I never found breached
Flowing that perpetually

96. A day for its night escorted
And when you were like a reservoir of water

97. A carrier broken, cleft
No, and not like a farmer in swampy land

98. Who left all his crops deserted burnt
I am one who borrows custom without precedent

99. And repays multiples of what is said
And we saw you do not take payment when you loan

100. A loan except a speaking tongue
Rather, we found you not accepting a reward

101. But to altruism alone you yearn
Far be it that you inclination was toward

102. Anything other than His essence you covet
O you who hosts are every disgrace

103. Your guest honored escorted
Its surface safe even if it slept with

104. Insulters, it boiled
He built the delegations of a sea caravan and a mountain's

105. Back, rising above winding slopes
Not like one who blamed the maidens

106. Blamed, so his hide was torn
So many threats you broke if fulfilled, the one

107. Whose sky it struck would be thunderstruck
You promised pardons and exemptions

108. From you, for flashes of lightning to gush
O namesake of the truthful in promise

109. How could it be but truthful
And pious, that you commit stinginess, never

110. Would differences between you be found
Who restrains fury in calamities, and a heart does not

111. Fear from blame's weakness trembling
You mount the sword in high ambitions but

112. Beware the edge of the sharp tongue
And you discern matters, not rivalry

113. Shepherding the flock, slumbering, drowsy
We tested your two days, O son of Ali

114. So we praised the clouded and clear
Your decisive day, leaving the dispute

115. Moving his abode razed
You have a day of dew with a sky

116. The pleats of which gushing do not cease
Redeemed by a day of haziness, with pilgrims

117. Who make doubt in proof totter
You avoid the murder of the adversary composed

118. Not impetuous with the lightweight foolish
Speaking logically, handling both class and branch

119. And what they generated of diverse groups
The praise of men flowed among the kings of mankind

120. Until you established for praise a market
And poetry in your courtyard became

121. Permissible though for a time prohibited
So may one who fulfills you ransom you, fulfilling you

122. And one who is not just sundered
If your rivals are advanced, the sword will not be mentioned

123. If it advances above
Except a critic of one you transcend but

124. It behooves the transcendent to transcend
Had we praised you with the praises already

125. Said among the people, it would not be plagiarized
And we would be in what we did like the judges

126. Who refuted a rightful one his rights
The predecessors praised a people with

127. Your ethics before you were created
They endowed them treasures belonging to you falsely

128. From their saying, and it was fanciful
So we seized the usurped and returned it

129. To a sincere lover made credible