1. What patience for a lover well-known
For passion, consumed by desire's fire,

2. For beauty's love and all loveliness,
And rapture and madness - so described.

3. How can he find peace from a beauty's love
Who is a sun, unblemished by decline,

4. Nor setting from the world, nor fading
From the jewels of beauty and grace.

5. A girl of beauty, no comparison,
Should she appear, without a peer.

6. If her light shone on a blind man's face
The blind man would become unblinded.

7. Mistress of the moles above rose-red cheeks,
With musk above the noble rose,

8. She made her hair black as the darkest night,
Among the blackest hair accounted.

9. A gazelle glancing, panting with longing
For the speech of the aloof, reproving one.

10. I wish when she stood before me
She would greet me with the slightest pause.

11. But glancing is an old trait of hers,
Nothing else she will do but by duty.

12. Changing nature is impossible,
And hoping for impossible is foolishness.

13. And her passion - it was created in her -
No sword's blow can make me leave it.

14. Oh reproacher, leave blaming and excuse me,
A lover's excuse is the way of the merciful.

15. Leave me to passion and the burning in my heart,
And excellent praise of the eloquent crafter.

16. Mustafa is foremost in explaining meanings,
Wise judgment in every branch of knowledge,

17. And Ali is supremely perfect
At the height of glory - the best honorable man,

18. He is unique, yet in my view
People and the world count him in the thousands.

19. Eloquent - I saw him speak as an orator
Words refined from the purest letters.

20. Meanings obeyed him, only leaving
The brilliant, intricate metaphors.

21. Oh brother of wisdom and intelligence strange,
Father of skill and subtle imagination,

22. You gifted me a peerless necklace
Leaving the moon eclipsed in darkness.

23. A daughter of thought was born of eloquence
Appearing, protected from distortion,

24. And triteness, inferiority and copying,
A virgin of brilliant metaphors.

25. She is a sun adorned with beauties,
Mistress of the necklace, of those with beauty.

26. Wearing cloaks above rippling breasts,
Bringing together beauty, wearers of hair tousled.

27. You were not bound by meter and rhyme
But they obeyed you, forced against their will.

28. Give life forever safety, honor,
Ease in the shadow of a gentle life.

29. And may you surrender the ages however long
While servants of the Subtle One praise you.