1. The sorrowful finds no relief but nearness,
Nor the lover any joy but the beloved's closeness.

2. In my time, none but love is recalled,
For nothing else occupies my thoughts.

3. His ear finds sweet the mention of love,
And is deaf to any talk but of passion.

4. Separation has fevered my body with yearning,
And it blazes with the fires of love’s abandonment.

5. In infatuation my bones are crushed,
When once they were unbroken by blows.

6. My eyes, once harder than iron,
Now weep copiously for my absent love.

7. I complain of nothing but love’s cruelty,
And only the beloved’s presence can slake my thirst.

8. Whatever the lover feared in absence has come to pass,
And dread makes him tremble.

9. Whenever the tender-hearted saw him,
He cast them into love’s confusion.

10. He shone like the full moon in the dark,
Overpowering them with his beauty.

11. My cheek reveals its ambergris origin
Like that of Bilal, the Abyssinian lord.

12. The blossoms opened in his garden’s bowers
To reveal the best place for lovers to sit.

13. I was glad when a spy spotted me
For the sting of reproach is less than the scorpion’s.

14. All night I stayed awake
To watch the sun erase the shadows.

15. With no full moon, the night danced,
And none watched but the awestruck witness.

16. Dancing, it was like dinars
Trembling in the hand of one made nervous.

17. The rising sun reminds me each day
Of the excellence of the Prophet’s way.

18. The wise executor fulfilled his time,
His reasoning missing no intended goal.

19. The water of life was revived by him,
And its glory lives, else it would not have endured.

20. Noble soul, he was like a tree,
His home at the peak of glory, under the Divine Throne.

21. He rested on glory and nobility,
For the heights were his best carpet.

22. That ascetic worshipper of the Merciful showed such reverence,
It was as if he could see his Lord before him.

23. May God preserve him in might and protect him
From every envious hater.

24. The garden has brought forth no finer embroidery,
Nor the buds more beautiful adornment.