1. The tales of love are recited to him
He found them sweet and was enthralled

2. He crossed the paths of passions
And took to gentle messengers

3. He began to tend to distance and nearness
In their times, estrangement and union

4. Speech of love remains fair
Unless it leads to action

5. How can I show patience, while passion
Assails the knots of endurance to undo them

6. I see naught but passion drawing near
Whether the loved one comes or turns away

7. Sorrow has filled my body and eyelids
A welcome to an illness that unites kin

8. He placed around necks from his bounty
Necklaces I took as messengers

9. If they bow to him, he guided them
Or if they recoiled, he pulled their rope

10. Of noble traits no trace remains
Except remnants weighed heavy

11. Written at the house of Aflah
And from the house of Aflah are sought

12. A youth whose deeds aged him
And many a deed made a child gray

13. And so it is with people, when examined
The greatest of them in deed is the oldest

14. If one lives to see the feast and its deeds
The feast never saw the likes of him