1. Leave the sorrowful one to suffer his sorrows,
And let tears flow as drops from his afflictions.

2. Do not pester him if he weeps or grieves from anguish,
Let him drift in ecstasy amid his diversions.

3. It's no wonder if he's distracted from his guide,
For the enthralled cannot see his guide leading.

4. He rides the steed of passion in the dark night,
Ecstasy is his leader and yearning his guide.

5. Nothing remains of his soul except his whim,
Which ebbs and flows to its furthest extremes.

6. His love kills him in his passion, while union
After the soul's departure brings him back to life.

7. My friend, look at me standing reverently -
For one whose hand the reins have left I pay respects.

8. A halt we honor out of awe for one who found
My hands unfit to even greet him anymore.

9. My pact with him - while the bare plains held
Pits for the lion of love to snare him.

10. How often have I dragged the tail of youth with him,
Pulling him along by the train of my garment's hem.

11. How often have I plucked the branch of passion with him,
And gathered the bloom of love through him and his songs.

12. The days of youth's garden - green are its anemones,
Adorned with splendor along its edges.

13. A bygone era whose sweet delight has waned -
How beautiful, how marvelous were its nights!

14. I would ransom the beloved who crept to me at night
As if he were the full moon rising in its brilliance.

15. I would ransom him - after long estrangement
Imagination brought him back - I ransom him, ransom him!

16. Good fortune and the stars of the night sky visited me,
With expectant eyes amidst its darkness.

17. She came to me, coquetting in her gatherings,
Dressed in beauty, though clad only in charm.

18. She chided my lengthy estrangement, and she had
Words that echoed the laments of my heart.

19. So I rose to kiss her cheek and her smile,
And sipped the sweetest intoxicating nectar from her mouth.

20. The water of life blushed on her face in shyness,
Her complexion turning pale in embarrassment and denial.

21. A face whose pearls smile amidst its beauty and perfection,
With radiant charm between its fairness and luminescence.

22. As the narcissus flirts with the rose's tender sprout,
And the fragrance of roses humbly bows before it.

23. A delicate, gentle-limbed gazelle, so delicate,
As if she's a tender branch bending in the breeze.

24. I still yearn for her as long as I live, just as
A farmer yearns for the safety of his bountiful crop.

25. Triumphant in taking on challenges, Fortune
Smiled on him as the foremost in praise and stature.

26. He rose up the ranks of lofty heights, and thereby
Ascended the heavens of grandeur in his loftiness.

27. He attained a sublime, brilliant station,
Which no creature can parallel in the ends of its bounds.

28. A light imagined, in its veneration, some human -
Glory to its Creator! Nay, Glory to its Creator!

29. O King, O brave lion, O protector, who
Was destined for praise and the most noble paths.

30. A King who triumphed with unique might, unique
In all he earned, while glory trails him.

31. May he grant success to the one who gifted him this poem,
Whose excellent traits it highlights from his grandeur.

32. He came to traverse the horizons of every land
Until the mountain peaks waved to him at their passes.

33. And he became, for every chick, a doting mother,
While pining hearts drowned in oceans of passion.

34. With tears flowing from them, from him, stifled wails
Poured forth between them, no stream contained.

35. Until I came to them, a mother who consoles them
Only by your name, as it shredded her heart.

36. She consoled them as she was wont to console,
While grief itself cleaved her heart in two.

37. She gave them good tidings of what she hoped from you
In the morn, and all that she wished for and desired.

38. So delight him with your hospitality promptly,
And fulfill his needs, and answer his prayers.