1. I said to the one blaming love: Awaken!
Do not belittle the taste of what you never tasted.

2. The soul yearns for the falsities of fancies,
And the soul's comfort is in the sleeplessness of the vigilant.

3. The elite of time - when time is pure -
Bring together that which was separated when unity was lost.

4. The passionate lover fulfilled his promise
On the night of the tryst - was it a specter that knocked?

5. The meeting is not pleasurable unless
The instigator of passion makes the embrace delightful.

6. If her allusion attained the eloquence of intimacy
And the excess of the unleashed one.

7. The All-Powerful deemed it sufficient
That every heart be enthralled by her love.

8. A hero deemed unwise he who did not say:
Death always lurks near.

9. If you want to blame one who passed away
Then blame the one who fell in love.

10. The slanderer fills my soul with anxiety
And fabricated talk pains me.

11. Whether it is love for her or separation from her,
The reality of humiliation is love or separation.

12. I leave off blaming the companion -
That is not termed disloyalty so one should not be ungrateful.

13. And I see studied reserve suits the gentleman more
Than wealth which, when kindled, he said was set ablaze.

14. There is nothing in it but what entices him,
So if I said be inspired, he said it caught fire.

15. Abundant compassion is hoped to benefit
After sincere advice is freely given.

16. The simpleton stumbled so he did not acquire
Any acceptance or subtlety that he spent.

17. And any brotherhood from him, if put up for sale
In the market for thirty days would not sell.

18. It is as if the separator came with all the ugliness
In a wager or race.

19. Claiming sodomy while wagering
When the gentleman is more rightly guided than one with a shaved head.

20. He has layers over layers of shortcomings
A cloak he wears over another cloak.

21. If his face was ugly, that sufficed us - but
He increased with a curse, the ugliness of his character.

22. A scholar of calumny, if he sincerely said to us
A word of sincerity, we would not think him truthful.

23. Rough in his sins, but his pedigree dilutes it,
Which is bandied about to the base.

24. An immoral wretch whose birds are all
Pastured in the theatre of blame and vain talk.

25. A genealogy, in a cage or its taverns,
Borrowing a mantle from every rag.

26. And if its branches violate the origin,
It is despicable, nothing like it matches.

27. Debased on earth, no trait raises it up
Crumpled within or softened.

28. He acts with good deeds then his benefit passes
So it ends just as compassion passed.

29. His palms are destroyed without achieving
The intention to demolish gates so they swing open.

30. If we sought any trials from his saliva,
It would be found deeper than the well of depths.

31. We did not find any shortcoming to praise in him
Other than the gifts of pathways.

32. Do not be surprised to see his seal ring
While the simpleton, by God, trusts in it.

33. If we whistled he would grunt in the water, and if
He passed by an ass he would bray.

34. If he walked wobbling or yelled to
A friend or died - he passed away.

35. A prisoner bound in chains, an ignoble
Forehead emerged, along with a head and neck.

36. Neither is the job of the camel-driver recorded, nor
Is wonder emaciated, nor is the face created.

37. A sound one whose broker did not stand
And took refuge in a nest or theft.

38. Blue-eyed, and of his talents
Is that he appears blue-eyed to the red-eyed.

39. He equips the wall or employs it
While intending to buy from a land he did not irrigate.

40. And if he boldly commits an outrage
He takes the lifted or walks with his head held high.

41. Do not seek what is past of his virtues
The pawn is hopeless so leave it, as it is locked up.

42. Consider him as a hireling, so his term ended,
Or a slave, so he fled.

43. If we calculated what is for him and against him
We would disbelieve that we were deprived of provision.

44. The world misses the measures, so whoever is not
At the bottom of the pit is in the air.

45. He would revive a dead man from thirst
But the excess he brought on killed the drowned.

46. Woe to me! If only poverty or wealth
Could be made continuous with a purse or stupidity.

47. They floated around with those frolicking,
Like foam upon the sea crashing into each other.

48. If we were given our due in the ascents
We would have risen in sublimity on the horizon.

49. His worth is higher than his fortune
Fate does not favor you if your right is not seized.

50. One who attains his goal precedes the appointment
Or surpasses it, had he surpassed the sword he would have won.

51. The dew shook his bending branches
Clothed in the foliage of praise, scintillating.

52. I do not approve a shaking from a bough
Unless it is from one with tender green leaves.

53. A determined one who in his management
Gathers the dispersed kingdom when it fractures.

54. Kings in the world - in might -
Whose armies are distanced from it and markets.

55. The greatest honor enriches the lands of their guests
And the Nile in flood enriching the meadows.

56. Each one of them is valued as a collective
Group, while the eye is the price of paper.

57. He adheres to the most daunting path
In the highest matters and most difficult deeds.

58. He takes over - without the battle-standard wavering -
The clash of banners in combat, fluttering.

59. He does not love holes except in war
Since sacrificing life for death is a breach.

60. He employs the Indian on the red-dyed camel
And the Khath'i on the one with the yellow saddlecloth.

61. He confined the enemies in his power
A victory as if he contended with a star and reached it!

62. Some slaves are freed by his favors
While lovely maidens by him are abducted.

63. In forgiveness, his wrath is hoped to subside,
But rancor does not flare up in him.

64. One who pursues every narrowness with relief,
Withholding the self from each weary breath.