1. The beauty's daughter, in whom beauty thrives
And perfect grace in souls is seen alive

2. Eclipsing sun, extinguishing the stars
Occluding moon, and every comet mars

3. God made her of sheer beauty, kept her pure
Lest matched her beauty be, of that be sure

4. With her God beauty graced, and granted her
Its ornament, a perfect decorator

5. She is beauty's fount, in every age and hour
Beauty's essence from her freely did shower

6. To liken her to suns reveals confused mind
Nay, 'tis the soul's true vision rendered blind

7. Incorrect of thought and lacking insight
Had they but seen the difference in her light

8. Her cheek a garden of beauty, while a fire
Tormenting my heart with sweet, painful desire

9. The rose buds in her, ruby melts away
In her, my inner jewels waste away

10. On her the brocade of olden days took pride
Seeking in her eternal youth beside

11. By God! The rose buds in her fiery cheek
In her the choice brocade its glory did seek

12. To kiss this fire dispelling grief and care
Just as within it lies the soul's repair

13. In her there lies a human, clear as day
Above her cheek, like amber's gentle sway

14. And on her beauty's garden he appeared
As drop on sun or moon when vision's cleared

15. He is as sun described in ancient verse
Like black of eye midst purest houri's face

16. By God! Wherever amber shows its pride
Above the rose it joyfully resides

17. And it, by blazing cheek, finds its perfume
Beneath the sword-leaf's shade and the narcissus bloom

18. Her teasing, tormenting, ruby mouth
Sheds precious jewels amid her pearl, uncouth

19. Its elixir openly boasts and brags
As if in ruby it was nourished from the vine

20. A chain so sweet, the West forgets its drought
When by her mouth revived, death put to rout

21. This wine revives the greatest of the great
Restoring spirits by its sating weight

22. I wonder, did some scholar declare taboo
This wine for him who seeks its overdue?

23. Who tastes it lives forever, never to know
The taste of death, or life itself forego

24. No chronic illness touched the one who sipped
Except by it the cure was quickly gripped

25. If you wish not by death to be outdone
Then drink it in ere parted by the lips

26. That which lies between, the sweetest thing
Dispels all gloom and narrowness does bring

27. With it, the smile's lightning you will gain
Bearer of radiance and beauty's chain

28. Her intoxicating fragmented glance
Bewitched, and plundered many a soul perchance

29. With it, hearts penetrated she did attack
As if an archer pierce with well-aimed knack

30. Within it lies a man, and sorcerer
Who sorcery for my like does confer

31. If he the sun impersonate and pretend
To catch it from the sphere's furthest end

32. I wonder who has seen or ever known
A sorcerer 'mid humans or jinn shown

33. To hunt the sun from heaven's drape unfurled
Or liken it to earthly maids and girls?

34. Her face, the sun, erased all beauty's traces
The noblest of beauty from them it erases

35. Her temple amidst the sun distinctly shows
Where the arch of eyebrows ascended grows

36. Her bangs like night and dawn appear to all
Above her visage's sun they rise and fall

37. They never set in any day all through
As they never set when the starling flew

38. That night draws nigh in darkest gloom
That dawn glows bright shedding its plume

39. Her stature is the branch, but with a bend
From the hand of beauty it bows and does extend

40. Scornful of spear in height and straightness both
And bends my heart while straightening its growth

41. Whene'er beauty tilts toward it with a lean
It scorns the bend just like the branch's mien

42. It scorns the branch, which if it knew
It wished it hadn't into life breakthrough

43. Her neck as pillar of the dawn's first light
Its beauty transcending planet's shine so bright

44. On it a necklace of pearls and gems lies bare
In which the eyes and minds entangled there

45. As if horizon stars that come and go
Their brilliance from the east to west does flow

46. By God! A necklace of gems was strung
As pillar of dawn in its glory was sung

47. Under the sun's rays, a smiled it wore
Like the pleats of cassia, gilt and more

48. A coronet for beauty, in which beauty prides
While beauty's pride in finest crown resides

49. If it the sun saw, it would cease to gleam
Lest shamed, eclipsed, the sunlight it redeem

50. With highest beauty, it boasts and gloats galore
It spoke the truth, for boasting is no more

51. Except through Ali, him exalted in rank
To whom the heads are raised, and knees they sank

52. Through him glory ascended to its place
And thereby sneezing loudest does take place

53. The hallmark of honor and pride's own crest
Epoch's glory, and my parents' best

54. By God, whoever swore by the forenoon
And then the night and late stars' opportune

55. Such boasting, though so very rare to see
Such glory, and with it clad so rarely

56. Oh God, preserve this Imam, scholar supreme
Whose model every leader does redeem

57. Unique, celebrated, proud and grand
Rebellious with perfect manner and stand

58. A guiding sun whose light brings certainty
And by it every star finds its clarity

59. Its light, by God, dispels the darkest night
So hasten thou to it and seek its light

60. Strive, and from it wisdom do obtain
None gives it, but the one who strives to gain

61. A lion, by God, who fears no lions dare
Upholds the truth and falsehood does impair

62. Speaks truth despite the envious abhor
He feared no speakers in God evermore

63. Who speaks the truth is wise and sagely sane
With truth how many beasts did he enchain

64. With truth's arrows he struck down many a knight
And with truth's arrows he strikes, dignified

65. The epitome of grace and purpose true
The hallmark of good deeds bearing fruit

66. Heart's blood of kindness, soul of propriety
His kindness transcending the dawn's breeze flowery

67. Seal of generosity, giving Arab style
His palms made rains appear benign and mild

68. As if an eye overflowing with boons
None else distilled such generosity

69. Unheard of in degree of his sheer grace
Lost to an age whose memory none can trace

70. Son of the sovereign of saints combined
Gnosis's polestar, and the wisest of mind

71. My master Jilani, shaykh of the pious ones
Knower of secrets and insights plainly shown

72. Follower of the best of prophets' ways
His grandfather, the Chosen, displayed

73. The best of messengers, unto whom God spoke
And drew most nigh at the nocturnal invoke

74. When with him did the Lord of heaven ascend
And Gabriel, the Spirit, his close friend

75. May that valiant in most pleasant life remain
His being unmarred, in body without pain

76. Rather, he makes the ages seem renewed
As if in body always fresh imbued

77. And God upon him blessings infinite
Beyond what leaves upon their branches alight

78. What meadows with desirous clouds seem bright
In floral coats and silks bedight

79. What the beauty's daughter, in whom beauty thrives
And perfect grace in souls is seen alive