1. Shall a secret be left after my secret to a confidant
You have been unfair, O torrent of pouring tears

2. Take all people together with weeping so we become equal
Otherwise why have you singled me out for blame?

3. Indeed, holding back tears in the eye of a grieving,
melancholic person is like suppressing rage in the breast of one who holds it in

4. I say to a caravan, turn back if you are safe
And say: we left him, though he is not safe

5. When we tried curing him, his relapse upon us increased
As if love were some of the poisons

6. Oh, if only the masters of passion would restrain him
As they commanded him to violate taboos

7. Nothing tempted me except the indifference of glances
That have lethal blows like spears and swords

8. They hinder patience, and war is deception
Especially the war of beautiful gazelles

9. If the steeds of misfortunes race toward me
Then the hands of gifts will be grabbing the bridles

10. To withhold them from me, for I
Have recounted my darknesses to the son of injustices

11. O Abu Al-Hasan, striving with all earnestness and resolve
Toward benevolence, from the mention of which is joy in seasons

12. He is quick to earn praise and is aggressive
When people's concern is earning money

13. And if people neglect the duty of munificence
And the right of gifts, he is the first to stand

14. A young man whose good health and noble countenance
Appeared, for the one seeking him, the faces of generous deeds

15. He increases in joy whenever one comes seeking
As if he has a longing for every newcomer

16. As if his chastity which meets the one seeking him
Is, from his exceeding generosity, a dreamer's patience

17. As if nobility is his inheritance, so Muhammad
Is his brother in it, like a partner dividing shares

18. When he builds glory, he builds it pursuing
While many a builder wears away with a demolisher

19. I saw glory clinging to the two sons of Ali
To this one and that, like a creditor insisting

20. This one rivals that in seeking every desirer
To have the equal of its peer's defiance

21. And the people have abandoned high ambitions, so whoever strives
For them has the fewest rivals in his striving