1. I parted though unafflicted by any disease,
And attained what they wished, though reluctantly.

2. A firm resolve cured me of passion,
For firm resolutions are healers.

3. The plaintive, wailing lover - his limbs
In the souls of lovers are mere caprices.

4. I recovered from it though enfeebled,
The cause being languid eyelids and viscera.

5. And there was about to trickle out from between them
Wine and water from his tender cheeks.

6. No dimple showed in his cheek,
Since all of it was a beauty spot.

7. Prolonged was his passion's inclination to his cheek,
As you saw the red moles.

8. But he checked himself; deeds and names
Were not alike in perfection and beauty.

9. And on a night he whitened, which to one
Who keeps watch is dark.

10. And all that he saw not startled him -
Groping about and listening in it.

11. He gropes confusedly about those around us.
And how many confused may grope!

12. I said to my two boon-companions, "Give me to drink and enliven it,
For the turns of fate are not enduring."

13. It accomplished from grief in a time
What Zacharias accomplished against it.

14. Shaykh of the Exalted, in the days of its shaykhs,
While the people then were all peers.

15. So what do you see, when the tribe passed away,
That they left behind or brought?

16. To Him belong glory, munificence, propriety
And bounty and kindness are His children.

17. How should the Sublime not be lofty, for One whose
Foundation in it is firm against the days?

18. The generous hands of one whose munificence approaches Him
Are prosperous, bountifully bestowing.

19. Knowing munificence, renowned for kindness
And attacking obscurity fiercely.

20. When its aspiration mounted high, it shone
As if it were the flower Zahrāʾ.

21. The words extract from his fingers
As if Eve were in them.

22. The courtyard of the healthy through his house
Is watered with munificence, verdant.

23. When ideas attack him,
And they are hostile to perceptions.

24. It suffices him for piercing what is intricate,
An allusion or a sign.

25. There is nothing in the matter, and in it, when
He bared his eloquence, were many things.