1. O you who has the garden of my heart a dwelling
And whose love in the heart of the passionate is alluring

2. Passion's ardour sends you greetings
As the bushes send us greetings after you

3. O my longing since your beauty disappeared
And companionship in your dwelling flourished

4. I was not preoccupied except by separation
And on the day we parted I did not see you

5. Do not reckon my not saying farewell
To be due to boredom, no, but

6. Due to my intense affection I could not
On the day we parted, my eyelids

7. For you to consider it a crime against a lover
Is forgiveness, and your forgiveness is safety

8. By God, since you left and the place of your visit vanished
I am like a wilted flower yearning to see you

9. So my separation seems long like a day with you
And a day without you eras long

10. If you are enjoying yourselves, return to sleep so that
A watcher's eye and tooth may find happiness in a phantom of you

11. The times of joy have quenched its thirst and prepared it
With the tears of an enamoured, fervent, passionate lover

12. I who keeps promises, if your covenant rises
Afterwards, it is preserved in conscience

13. If you ask about the state of a lovesick youth
Sleep does not taste it, nor do the eyes

14. And the day of farewell has stripped me
Of passions of a heart, some of which are fires

15. So my fervent love sends you with the morning breeze
Spirits of longing, known to the sweet basil

16. O people of my affection! Can a fervent
Lover win your phantom, his eyelid awake?

17. A patient heart, whose quality is concealment, almost
Revealed its passion in your absence

18. When will an eye see the honor that fever brought
And your dwelling by family and homelands made joyful?

19. How excellent is blessed Egypt, for it has come near
And from its beautiful meadows Osman

20. A human being passionate for knowledge and obtaining it
And the beloved of a soft eye, we forgot man

21. A fervent lover, his heart loves
Literature, and its proof appears from his literature

22. He traveled to obtain knowledge
And separation is sweet for the lover exile

23. He had with me a delightful talk
That related history, his ears like cups

24. And now his mention and praise have come to me
And branches are what my eyelids shed

25. So my fervent love for him, whenever
The morning breeze blows and chats its melodies

26. O you loyal to your covenant
Show kindness to me, for I am lovesick

27. So every greeting and peace of a covenant preserved by faith
Is due to you from me

28. And our beloved conveys special greetings
To our shining Ahmad Abu Al-'Ala Osman

29. So may He grant you both knowledge and memorizing it
And open for you the gifts

30. And return you to us with wishes
In every virtue unmatched by peers

31. I beseech you, the best prayer, with features
That blessings and submissions were linked to

32. And Al-'Isawi son of nobility, composer
Of the necklace of praise in love unparalleled

33. Who kisses hands, and that suffices you
And forgiveness of his shortcoming is kindness