1. Listen to the tales of the scrolls that were famed
After exonerating them of frivolity and illness

2. They have become while their scrolls their pens created
Along with them their writing does not manifest to me

3. From every curve of the two cheeks kohl-lined eyes
Of drooping lids concealing cheeks in shyness

4. When he walks you see in his neck a tilt
And between his thighs a straight unwavering spear

5. I asked him for union one day and he obligingly responded
With an answer that spurned me in agitation

6. Until I revealed my state, and he said: If it were not
For what we intend, you would not unite

7. Upon me are vows and oaths confirmed
That I not rebel upon a back or shoulder

8. So I said: Go safely, fear no breach of your pact by me
For this is not what you fear from my actions

9. I took from him a vengeance that does not obligate me
Firstly, so who was from me Joseph son of Ali?

10. If he has awoken with paralyzed hands, then
Yesterday his legs were enabled by my legs

11. And O slaves of love which descended
Upon them from glory at the highest peaks

12. If an eagle did not honor its fellow
You would not have tattered yourselves in rags and patches