1. I ask you, does love gather people like a home,
And quench the thirst of the yearning like water?

2. Did its departure suddenly bid the lovers farewell,
Like a weeping cloud shedding its rain while it weeps?

3. Does the permissible sustain you after they deserted you
While through separation they became more wondrous to you?

4. Rather, a specter of the one I pine for appears whenever
I moan with passion, instilling hope through temptation.

5. If an illusion from it is fulfilled along with destiny
I awake from a loss that startles and terrifies me.

6. My eye sees in meeting him what ear does not hear,
And my ear hears an echo that does not exist.

7. It is enough - the right of fanciful imagination -
With it to return the soul of the infatuated so it retreats.

8. Is it not a duty that no aspect of life
Can be forgiving, save an aspect that refuses?

9. The harvest of youth is scattered spoils,
While formerly it was collected loot.

10. I regret when I lower my goal,
Becoming content when I am frugal.

11. Your fortune in both abodes -
The young man prevails in generosity and daring.

12. The singing of the bow flows from the spring of its sapling
And the arm of the archer is strengthened by the bow.

13. So do not completely unleash your sword
For it to continue on. Rather, it is the heart that is severed.

14. If you wish, good fortune will dodge you while the feeble resist you
And a pretentious slave contends with fate against you.

15. The protection the son of Yalbakh offered me
Was nothing but a slight shielding from poison's sting.

16. I have found that feared things are just their anticipation,
And I flee from what befalls me and is expected.

17. The lion keeps away from its prey when satiated
And overwhelms its prey while famished.

18. If an insignificant man obstructs our steeds,
The cheek of the wicked man's son is trampled.

19. In the swiftness of the horses lies the might of my ministry,
A father who defends my women and repels.

20. We wrestle with misfortunes when they befall,
With it busied, my arm prevails so I subdue it.

21. One who lowers himself from his value while aspiring
And one who is deceived from his fortune while being deceived.

22. When the weak seek his pardon, the encompassing gloom of doom expands,
Accustomed by his pardon, while upon them

23. Are crimes they committed yesterday and squandered.
Khorasan did not gain from them what

24. She stood by for a period anticipating.
It is surrounded by the utmost of what is feared and hoped for

25. In their plots - which of the two will come to pass?
It is true that the exalted, Ala Bin Saeed,

26. Ascended an elevation, reaching its extent and towered over it.
He watched over the kingdom from its corners, and a smooth-talker

27. Curried favor with the kingdom - those deputed by Chosroes and Tobba.
His frown terrifies hearts, and his cheer

28. Is a cool greeting that makes the courier hasten.
A friend whose benefit aids me in my need of him

29. While not all comrades are beneficial.
He intercedes for me in difficult matters

30. And paves the way for me with men, so he intercedes.
The downpour of rain flows, its abundance quenched,

31. And its consumers follow it when it departs.
Misfortunes have ceased to pursue you, Abu Eisa,

32. And fortune continues to come to you obedient.
I planted hope in your vicinity early on,

33. And most of man’s harvest is from where he sows.
My fortune has competed with fortunes and deflected

34. Sudden events from it while the course is set.
Extravagance has not wasted my right, and it continues

35. Alongside extravagance, a wasted right.
If not for your bestowal that restrained my resolve,

36. There would have been a tear in Abroojird, broadcast.
The vessels would have turned toward Iraq, gorged,

37. Their load like a torrent’s downpour amassed.
As if the accumulations of ice under them

38. Are mountains - their peaks towering and assembled.
Camel litters traveling the night, the changing of their hue

39. Dyed by a darkening from the night, saturated.
As if the white of old age is an elevated

40. Young man in the sky, exalted.
The stars rise while it wanes behind them -

41. Rising lights that almost pierce the dusk.
As if the Pleiades is a burdened swimmer

42. Returning from the errand of waters, withdrawing and turning back.
When they shy from visiting a side

43. With their camel litters, terrified, they come hastening.
Roaming with the dark night, following its quenching

44. And preceding the morning so the darkness follows.
As if Suhail is a parched person leaning

45. Toward the horizon, forbidden by the land, drinking.
When the dawn and the dark night are two dissenting parties,

46. It tears through its mended cover.
I awake but do not hope with complaint of passion,

47. I awaken but do not slumber or harbor hope.
My days that provoke me with their length pass,

48. I shall return to God.
Are they garments of forbearance or does my youth wane

49. And pass while gray hair comes in entirety?
No day is better than one in which I deter youth

50. From it, and preoccupy myself with prohibition and pleasure.