1. Each lover has a state,
So do not wonder if speech differs.

2. Do not ask the confidant, but ask the lovesick one,
Whose eyes the kohl pencil shot.

3. How many a reproacher blames yet knows not
What is the debt and what is the beauty!

4. With my soul! One of the Turks, a gazelle
Playing between whose sides the pet plays.

5. He walks swaying, lost, and gazes
At the onlooker - such is lawful magic.

6. Beauty blossomed in his rosy cheeks,
And the crescent flowered in his brow.

7. He is passionate for breasts against aversion,
No wonder if the gazelle is startled.

8. He brandished a black glance from his narcissi -
Beware its destruction, O polished white!

9. Unjust is he who regards not a youth's pact,
In my line his figure is balanced.

10. He excuses us with union, then estrangement -
No estrangement endures, nor union.

11. None but he is worthy of beauty,
Just as perfection belongs to perfection.

12. A youth who dictated skill with his right hand
On a page turned by chance.

13. And every meaning rose from his mind,
For him in each rarity there is destiny.

14. When he shook his forelock, I saw you scattering
The necklaces of singing girls as example.

15. The clouds of literary merits poured on him drink,
And literature sipped the literary merits.

16. He came with his noble traits by a path
Where glories and fine qualities ascended.

17. And he adorned the beauty of words with eloquence,
Which his subtlety distinguished from adornment.

18. His merit foretells that he will come
To gain high gifts.

19. He will rise in rank and gain lasting glory,
Which neither declines nor ceases.

20. O Kemal al-Din, in you is the perfection of merit,
And from you come fulfilment and perfection.

21. So stay, and the heights will call you
To the best of what is sought and attained.