1. My reproacher's wish that I convey advice
To one accepting it was vain.

2. You listen to some of his words
Don't be misled - I wasn't the doer.

3. I care for you deeply, so realize
My care, like one slain cares for his killer.

4. My reproacher, if he spake, has squandered
His words on an oblivious confidante.

5. It's as if he imagined I'd recognize
Truth from falsehood in this affair of passion.

6. Oh heart, the turns of love have cast you
Distracted by the busyness of fervent passion.

7. Bidding farewell to each departing lover
And welcoming each new arrival.

8. A lamenter lamenting the separation
Addressing the imminent, urgent separation.

9. Speaking to me plainly about her
No welcome to his words or him.

10. Who will support me against the turns of love
For my patience with her is defeated?

11. And if tomorrow it bears reproach for her
Al-Hussain son of Abu Talib would bear it.

12. It would squeeze its palms, pouring calamities
On its turns, like pouring heavy rain.

13. It has, through its generosity and exceeding virtue
Become in the coast an endless ocean.

14. If it brandishes a sword in battle
It outlasts the vanishing fate of death.

15. Or if it wields a blade from its principles
It hastens the arrival of inevitable death.

16. Abu Ali, describing her is a trait
Beyond the strength of any undertaker.

17. I have distracted my thoughts with her for ages
Exerting myself without reaching any goal.

18. Her qualities empower whoever lacks
Inclination to hoarding money.

19. Whoever wants glory - and glory
Cannot be possessed except by a spending hand.

20. Is not high station but praise? And have you
Heard any praise for a miser?