1. I have composed these thoughts
With profound lessons and morals

2. And I won't claim that
I have molded them like pearls

3. I have sent them as they came
Between absence and presence

4. Ruins that were not for me
With permanence or dwelling

5. And I won't be ashamed if I die
Embarrassed by this effect

6. Like the assumption of all those
Whose imagination composed poetry

7. And the assumption of those who saw
A place of prose so they dispersed

8. Thinking they have conquered immortality
And attained victory

9. An old delusion my manner
In it other than proper

10. How heavily man burdens
Himself with survival even in news

11. And how intense is his love
If only it would last in a rock

12. How many ideas its writer
Penned when they occurred

13. And said this is my gain
Without doubt, people's admiration

14. When they know I
Am the owner of this innovation

15. Even tears and pleasure
When one cries or is happy

16. He notes it down as if
A beggar seeking attention

17. But I, and you know
O kind brother

18. Have never once
Wished for such grand wishes

19. And have not cared for a book
To fold or spread

20. And I don't care if my name
Doesn't become famous or well known

21. But you have taught me
With insight and experience

22. How wisdom is the best
For travelers and life is a journey

23. That takes from fruits
Along its path

24. And senses the beauty of wanderings
If the beauty of the moon escapes it

25. And chooses its companions
For sociability and night talk

26. Agreeing with its equals
In prosperity and otherwise

27. Avoiding their mistakes
Forgiving what can be forgiven

28. Renouncing ways that
Stain the garment

29. Being fair and just
In love or business

30. Holding onto truth not
Tempted by delusions

31. Following the rule of prohibition
And not challenging fate

32. In religion and life having
The wisdom of lesson and chest

33. If given virtue spreads it
Among people, the action of one thankful

34. Sharing it even if
Sharing of hearing and sight

35. And doesn't prevent it from them
Like a miser hoarding

36. And doesn't waste it frivolously
With what he boasts and prides

37. That is what you have taught me
Precious pearls

38. A natural philosophy
You've made familiar since childhood

39. From a pure nature
The cleanest of instincts

40. I took its signs from you
Though not detailed in chapters

41. I attended to it like a reciter
The essence of guidance concisely

42. It showed me the world and in it
Sublimity and grandeur

43. And made me uninterested in praise
And other vanities

44. The day I took refuge
My dwelling in one of the graves

45. But calling me from it
I responded when commanded

46. Saying leave what's to come to the unseen
And take what is present

47. Describe to friends what you see
Of flowers and blossoms

48. Recite to them what brings
Serenity or dispels sorrow

49. Warn them of perils
On the path and dangers

50. Comfort their troubled hearts
And don't help those burdened

51. Guide gently at times
And at times with deterrents

52. O you who called me, I am one
If called to good, readily responds

53. People vary, each
Granting to the extent able

54. The worst are those capable
Of benefiting but made excuses

55. Had this book not
Emboldened me, it wouldn't have appeared

56. And is only tales
Of affairs and remembrance

57. And lingering scents
Of youth now passed

58. And spontaneity that came
Between sunset and dawn

59. In candlelight or
Moonshine from wine

60. Under shooting stars or
Among tree shadows

61. Thoughts illuminated
With them the marks of night vigil

62. I dressed them in my tears
And in my blood, this ink

63. Mature, strange, modern
Fabric of extinct Mudar

64. That is my diwan and what
I flaunt flaunting pearls

65. If it brings comfort
Or respite from boredom

66. Or wisdom taken from
One who heeds and reflects

67. That is what I spread
For that without caution

68. And after that I have
No pride or pretense