1. My excuse, from one I did not befriend
Nor inform her heart of my affection

2. And from a secret I confided, then it spread
A trail of pouring, gushing tears in its disclosure

3. A smouldering ardour in ribs, which when they bend
Over it, are unmoved by the heat of its blaze

4. The throngs have endured the trials, and hastened
Their calamities, from healer and dunes

5. Among them appeared a blossoming branch, if it shows
An informant abode, about its form and likeness

6. It grieves you that it does not incline when it sways
And saddens you that it does not straighten when upright

7. What can an ardent lover do, when estrangement
Prevents his stratagems, blocks his schemes

8. A beloved who avoided any mention
Of him, or phantom visiting his imagination

9. Am I forbidden, in his estrangement, from madness
When I was once madly enamoured of his union?

10. And I'm told to be patient by one who does not feel
My passion, nor does his state match mine

11. If I lose the life that passed in ardour and torment
Then truly, I have lost shade at its transition

12. I have given up wooing the villain, and instead
My fortune is the glory and wealth of the noble

13. I did not find in the course of fate a spring for me
So I sought the Nile's shore at its flooding

14. I swear by what the pilgrims recite in Mina
And what they believe of the Prophet and his kin

15. That the sorrow of one who bids him farewell
Loyally, will assault him, unsettled in his travels

16. To the son of Nahik - verily he claimed ancestry
To his uncle, paternal uncle of nobles and maternal relations

17. Empty of any affair that would discredit him
And if occupied, glory is the sum of his occupation

18. Ali bin Yahya - verily he claimed ancestry
To his uncle, paternal uncle of nobles and maternal relations

19. Strange of temperament are our minds
Swaying in the shadows of his mysteries

20. When a group protected lineage, an insane
Ambition encroached to debase it

21.
He faced it at the height of hardship

22. Acting so people fell short of matching him
If his peers fell short of his stature

23. Then a man's right hand is above his left
Concerns marred his youth

24. So he grew old before his time
It's as if mountains, firm-standing, learned

25. Poise from his forbearance and majesty

26. I trusted his favors and they were not withheld
And saw success before asking

27. And you know the sword's edge suffices you
To compete with peers before drawing it

28.
O Abul Hasan, you have created in the horizon of dew

29. For us, generosity - our hopes in its shade
One auspicious departed from you, so renew through his successor