1. I went seeking words to address him,
While I was preoccupied with an eye desiring to look.

2. Whenever my gaze was confused by his beauty,
To quench my thirst, beauty said, “How do you see him?”

3. This one whom the Most Merciful created in his image,
There is no flaw in him, so turn your sight back.

4. So I said what the women of sight said before me,
When they saw Joseph’s beauty, “This is no mortal!”

5. He appears and you would think him scowling with beauty,
Clothed in scent, wrapped in gentleness.

6. If fire were to spark from his cheeks it would ignite,
Or water were to drip from his eyelids as drops.

7. So do not be sullen in manners, O my hope,
Lest the clear become in all this troubled.

8. Truly, governance is hoped to benefit its master,
Like lightning which the farmer hopes for rain.

9. And you have no need to distrust a brother,
Nor has a bow any glory without its string.

10. Increase us, for we are thankful for your good deeds,
And good can be added to by one who is thankful.