1. Four from time are for God
They suffice me from the sum of life

2. Time was gracious with them despite its stinginess
And fulfilled them despite its betrayal

3. The eye of misfortunes was not alert to them
Until they passed, rolled away, and were not known

4. Wonder at days of encounter
Between yearning and companion of youth

5. Whatever beauty and charm you wished for
Whatever sun and moon you wished for

6. Whatever safety and hope you wished for
Whatever good news and tidings you wished for

7. Our innermost thoughts are chaste so our outward selves
Are of similar openness and secrecy

8. Our innermost thoughts are pure so our inward selves
Are intermingled like the wind and raindrops

9. A melodious singer strives for us
His singing makes you needless of drinking and wine

10. The beauty of his tune makes the branches
Sway like the breeze does to a green branch

11. He collects the notes that have fallen from him
His beauty has shackled creativity

12. He shapes them into a dance to the rhythm
Nearly making the meanings of poetry visible

13. Say to the critic to adjust his cloak
If he does not know as he should know

14. In a garden the spring has dragged
The train of beauties whichever drag

15. Embroidered globes with flowers
Surrounded by flowers on all sides

16. They grant fragments of their light
No small leaf or dust speck was created

17. But it is a beauty that has varied hues for me
And beauty is of varying hues, so excuse me

18. The breeze has toyed with it, laden
So they embraced waist to waist

19. When pressed together, a kiss leads to a kiss
So its flowers stole a kiss from lip to lip

20. And for many a kiss, its beginning
Was an embrace, and an embrace came from intoxication

21. The wide-eyed narcissus did not wink frivolously
But from what it saw of the situation

22. Nor did its nightingales cry out
Before it was time, except from being overpowered

23. I ransom our nights which robbed me
In their shadows, of life's etiquette

24. The ends of Sha'ban amazed me
We attained whiteness by the month's end

25. And often the outcome of a praised thing
Its beginning did not flow with mention

26. Were it not for my embarrassment, I would say
Its sequence in fate is like Laylat Al-Qadr

27. I have no qualms with it except
Its hastiness at dawn before the dawn