1. Between the truth of prohibition and the lies of wishes
Opinion and passion stood looking

2. Passion has audacity and opinion has wisdom
And in their presence are two factions

3. O souls who have enjoyed the harvest of youth
The matter has been decided for them and the fallen one has rested

4. I am not the ruler in an age of conceit
For my time in conceit has passed

5. And the fantasy I poured myself into
For twenty pilgrimages has let me down

6. People of the Nile, tell about me
And you two pyramids bear witness with it

7. The songs I cried over
Remaining, still speak O songs

8. Your blossoming eyes flirted with me once
And your dice echoed my melodies

9. And if after me comes your ancient pact
Do as you wish with my love and my tongue

10. O abodes of passion, with what kind of cup
Has passion watered me from its water-bearer?

11. A nightingale complaining and a rose withering
Look how the lovers are happy

12. Fate makes mockery of an ignorant band
While since knowing it, it makes me cry

13. Whenever I say to my wish “come near me”
It avoids me, even from the wish

14. O honor, how are you among us
A noble guest overtakes you again

15. Misfortunes destroyed you, palace by palace
Undermining the pillars of your buildings

16. People have oppressed each other since they were
The oppression of man to man has been long

17. And if in life there is little
Of bliss, that is for crowns

18. And the minds we assumed enlightened
Took cover in the darkness of religions