1. It is more fitting and proper that my habits return
And my sincerity be maligned and my envier rejoice

2. And separation has come upon me, destroying my spirit
O the one who departed my heart with separation

3. The countries became too constricted for me altogether
To the point I felt the earth was a palm for a hunter

4. Does someone I love frolic sound and calm
While I wander in the dress of dispossessed misery?

5. By Allah, I remain while anguish is in my entrails
Due to separation watering me with lethal poison

6. O doe of the tents, you of languid eyes
The threat came true, so where is the truth of promises?

7. What would harm you if passion cooled
Between cheeks with the touch of a frigid mouth?

8. If worries keep you awake at night or come to me
And my night would be, for you, the night of one asleep

9. O her two guides, tarry and do not hasten
To drive your delicate doe away from me

10. Say to him, repeating the heart of a bereaved one
If there is no return to union, despondent

11. Alas for his eyes that were unreceptive
When we bent his neck without resistance

12. O fate, will you bring me near to her abode
After torturing me with prolonged absence?

13. O fate, how much you have wronged me, yet found me
Neither complaining of misfortune nor ungrateful

14. You continue to oppress me, submerging me
And mistreating me with the tyranny of a hater

15. And if I become troubled, the face of fortune scowls at me
You hasten to deprive me, speeding like a contender

16. How you have elevated an ignorant and indolent man
When you debased a brother making the pilgrimage with effort

17. You made their ancestors successful in all matters
When you were unhelpful to the free with every witness

18. Wondrous are people whose ropes I tied
And I protected their absence with every onlooker

19. And I concealed their shame and was a warrior
Against whoever sought to diminish them with every effort

20. Then I saw the hypocrisy of their hearts with my eyes
For the eye in such states is the most just witness

21. So I recognized that and did not stop drawing them near
And clemency between relatives and strangers is best

22. Until I heard their malicious words and actions
The actions of the unjust and envious

23. So I busied myself and did not expose their secrets
And restrained my adviser and supporter from them

24. And they saw the beauty of forgiveness as weakness
After they disbelieved the beauty of patience like the unbeliever

25. There I endured humiliation exerting myself with them
And did not lie with any extra words

26. So I marked their faces with traits that humiliated
Their necks before people after necklaces

27. And I loosened their venom with truthful words
In prose and in composed poetry

28. And I made them the joke of gatherings for their lifetime
And aloof from a mourner and a praiser

29. So when they see me approaching, I find them
Lowering faces, tongue-tied like the mute

30. And when I turn about, they slink away
Wretchedly in the eyes of the discerning critic

31. Each desires my downfall if he could attain it
Losing his mother and father

32. But God is the greatest supporter of the peaceful petitioner
And God is the greatest subduer of the unjust obstinate one

33. You said, if my speech is accepted, beware
A lion who will crush you with a powerful arm

34. But they went on in the hatred of their hearts and were destroyed
Like debris for a digger or a hunter

35. If you deny what I say of their villainy
You will know their treasures in a single day

36. When the generous one sees one of lowness
He turns away affection from him, turning away the repulsive one

37. Do not disregard people of affection and piety
And you will win the best ally and confidante