1. You wished your soul to be patient, yet it is impatient
Even if they blame much, what's with you is more

2. The censurers of love shine when loving
They only judged based on what they saw

3. And parting slyly steals the farewell
While distance stretches tight upon it

4. It stumbles due to its haste and cries for the beloved
As if with its tears it trips

5. I used to hear what I see and it would frighten me
But today what I see does not frighten me

6. The old man is an ascetic between two asceticisms
One in him and one from him when he is chided

7. And the singing girls, when they use his old age as kohl
The mattress is lifted for them and they tighten their waist wrapper

8. And you think time turned white because of sorrow
Nay, it is the eras that turned white

9. And she dies while the living are alive through her
Of whom should I inform or not inform?

10. The names of a people are like guideposts to them
In others, and their guideposts are what come to mind

11. Of their love, that they not be generous, that they
Wished, if they became needy, they wouldn't be able to

12. An illness I think you avoided its ways
And escaped its ways, O Ja'far

13. And the torrent breaks through the valley, so whoever ascends
A lofty place sees what the descending one does not see

14. And I see you fulfilled above Taneuf
Waiting from which direction you will be thanked

15. I am of your lowly ones, who even if they are absent
The exalted ones are not mentioned until they are mentioned

16. And if you reconciled, you reconciled one of kinship drawn near
And affection known, which cannot be denied

17. And that is enough for you, so whatever you build upon it
Exceeds you, built by the one who facilitated

18. And a discourse prolonged upon its companions
Yet in describing your praise it falls short