1. He did not know how he would become an emigrant
And strangeness would make him skilled through experiences

2. I heard the rumor about his cheek and face
Spreading in this life

3. So if you see him with downcast eyes
Know that there is a flying heart within

4. Were it not for my guiding eyes
The broken one would not become whole

5. Your glances that kill me as if you had never been
O you of languid and weary eyes

6. And for the like of that I was hoarding my provisions
I sought them but found only faint traces

7. So when I was overcome I forgave my blood
Does a man forgive except when able?

8. And a night of drinking I spent with a company
Passing around glass after glass

9. The morning was as if in its light
Night, and they were in it a shining dawn

10. As if their wine-pourer had become for them
One who extracts from the qualities of the penitent

11. Until when drunkenness mixed with them, each
Set up excuses for himself

12. While I continued drinking it alone and content
With the beauty of your company, O unique friend

13. Indeed your attributes torment me, confident
Of the truth in them, composer or disseminator

14. God has an ocean of dew, so when the ocean of perdition
Became turbulent, it foamed over it

15. His vigils, his gifts, his attributes
Are present on its shores as jewels

16. And many an ugly cloud He charged
With bearing rain and it rained from them

17. And you marched under them in throngs
That dust still stirred up

18. And the clouds are scattered by the winds while these
Are clouds whose steeds are the winds

19. Oh would that you had encountered under them
Him whom time treats unjustly

20. That the barefoot of your generosity may rest
For they have broken to you registers of complaint

21. No sooner did you hear Abu Al-Wahid with one
Who gathered the lions and led them as troops

22. You singled yourself out, so you alone listened
Then I singled myself out, so I alone was a poet

23. For long have the opinions of mankind abounded
Yet I brought just a little, vying