1. Inherit from me naught but weeping, weeping evermore
And let fall your tears with the weeping, weeping evermore

2. Though the companions determine to part, can you see
One like the companions, for you, as a companion, evermore?

3. O you who tread the path, you left behind
My heart for you, beside the path, a path, evermore

4. You left me - I awake not from anguish
In love, forgive me, to be so awake, evermore

5. You task me with what I cannot endure, so if you bear
Patience, I cannot bear what you can bear, evermore

6. You blame me, yet passion in me never ceased
Between my ribs like an inferno, burning evermore

7. My tears have flooded my body, so my heart
In the sea of love became drowned, evermore

8. And two wine-skins - I toy with, thirsting always
With them, mornings and evenings, evermore

9. One wine-skin's sipper is the sipper, the other
For it shall have the touching of lips, evermore

10. This one stays clapping in my smile
With a cup from that one, clapping evermore

11. And turns for me in my sitting, from this one
And from the touching of lips, the pitcher and pitcher, evermore

12. If you hurl a draft or a sip of wine
She brings her wine-skin close to me, evermore

13. And if I grow tired of the pure wine, still for me
From her lips comes like the pure wine, evermore

14. And as though a sun takes respite
From its palm the red planet and the moon, evermore

15. The sun, when it rises, its dawn
For people comes before the dawn, evermore

16. And I stayed sipping from her pillow a paradise
As though the musk wind spent the night intoxicated, evermore

17. Till when the morn grinned with a smile
While with us, no appointment had been made, evermore

18. She greeted him, so her tears flowed freely
Above her cheek, remaining pure drops, evermore

19. O her beauty in that moment when she sufficed
With a tear on the delicate cheek, pure drops, evermore

20. Days when the basin from her was pure
For union, no murkiness and no muddying, evermore

21. When we were, each one from us ceased not
In that to be a lover, beloved, evermore

22. Our passions between us divided
So all become desiring and desired, evermore

23. Trust in one you know, not the companion, so perhaps
The one you know, not the companion, is a companion, evermore

24. And forgive your brother, for you - if you task him
With excess - gain but ingratitude from him, evermore

25. How by one you know, straits become spacious and how
Spaciousness for the ignorant becomes constricted, evermore

26. O for the men! For the judgment of an age that tried me
The vile's assumption of it became truth, evermore

27. This is an age in which its wise one
Became blind and its fool became logical, evermore

28. And the free from attaining hopes is fettered
While the base seeks his passions unfettered, evermore

29. Were it not for Abu al-Tayyib the King - Glory
Arrogance would not have tasted geniality and lightning, evermore

30. A king who sees largesse as a duty
And sees graciousness upon him as rights, evermore

31. The people's sustenance is by his hands, and his sustenance
Flows, so he is called Sustainer and Sustained, evermore

32. No schemer schemes against him
But the Creator protects the created from him, evermore

33. Indeed leadership pledged allegiance to him to take it
As a covenant and pact with him, binding, evermore

34. Can one reach him, after he had passed
The swift, outpacing them in swiftness? Evermore

35. If after Ahmad there was prophethood among people
He would have it above people, truly evermore

36. O you who disgraced the Jewish apostate
The victorious Christian infidel, evermore

37. The minds but yours went astray when they battled
A sea your army crosses unfathomed, evermore

38. And they met you with hordes like mountains
So you shredded their throngs shred by shred, evermore

39. Their swords divorced from you
Their souls their bodies unambiguously, evermore

40. Your horses churn the dust into waves
Of them, terrified by the swords, scattered, evermore

41. You attained the limits of praise and tread from
The paths of leadership a path smoothly paved, evermore