1. My heart overflowed with passion
For the love of the most beautiful gazelle

2. None can match the radiance of sun and moon
With such brilliant beauty so fair

3. It captivated minds with magic of eyes
And shot lovers with arrows of languor

4. Making crazed those passion's disease seized
Who relished its havoc with fervor

5. Content to face death by glance's swords
As livers like candles did smolder

6. Each soul freely offered in loving accord
While for its love was each cheap vendor

7. Consumed with desire, all reason it scorched
Ablaze with rapture and fire of yearning

8. My critic, cease blaming, no need to be harsh
You've never tasted love's longings that burn

9. If for an instant you felt its sweet touch
You'd know to blame lovers is crime most stern

10. So strive my friend, be earnest and keen
To feel love's frenzy and be ever its keen

11. Oh what sorrow for he who spurned this love
And was pierced by the darts of its fate

12. Among the living he faded away
Like a ghost without trace or slate

13. I am a youth smitten with passion's swell
My heart and body melted in its spell

14. I'm consumed with anguish for desire's flame
And though to union I haven't drew nigh

15. My soul has wandered to realms of the vain
Robed in illness and infirmity's guise

16. Behold him now, a specter that looms
Gaunt form wasted like one dead and tomb-bound

17. Or a crescent whose slender curve looms
If his clothes fell, no flesh would be found

18. Oh my burning desire for this gazelle
Most gentle and beautiful of them all

19. His cheeks, glory and beauty endow
None can compare to such beauty at all

20. His mouth contains wine and pure honey
He is sweet nectar most luscious and bright

21. If he gave me one draft of his lips
I'd stay drunk for the rest of my life

22. Dancing with joy, the whole world I would thrill
Refreshing the soul and plumping the build

23. Does he have an equal, with day's beaming light?
He is a moon without peer in this world

24. By his halo of charm that steals hearts
He is musk, silk and incense when unfurled

25. Above his cheek by his temple I wish
My lips could become, by that fireside to relish

26. To dwell in the glow of the sun at dawn
On that beautiful, perfect cheek's expanse

27. And gain through the ages this boon
To press lips to that rosy cheek's glance

28. My people, how harshly to me you've behaved
Though I'm the love-struck and passionate knave

29. For his love did my reason take flight
Tell me, what is it I should do?

30. Ask him for a union and meeting's delight
For in that prospect my hopes now imbue

31. How often by me was he shyly perceived
As roses on his cheek were sweetly conceived

32. For my love of him, ever will I pine
Devoted through all of time's advance

33. My people, for one who has seized my heart's reigns
Like he has, captor of souls and of kings

34. How many passionate youths has he slain
Of this there can be no doubting

35. A beauty whose rays shone upon me
All minds were enslaved by its blinding luminosity

36. With a sway and a stride floating on air
Scornful of the bending bough's lean

37. Happy the lad for his love when laid bare
And for him was by rapture sustained

38. Radiant princess of the lithe form
Daughter of Khadir, in necklace and veil

39. Whoever felt passion for that gazelle
Amongst flocks was by love curtailed

40. The fairest of folk are the noble ones' bail
Such words are approved and prevail

41. All minds sharpest he did hail
Standing out by his wit so avail

42. No has disputed with good cause to assail
He is just, no valid plaint to unveil

43. What he stated correct, we will not curtail
By the experts of creed it will not fail

44. God bless him, the orator vociferous
The astute whom astutes hold as glorious

45. The eloquent, unique phrases so wondrous
Each smooth, lovely, and curious meaning

46. The sage, accomplished, who brought into light
Strange manners of rhyme and insights so bright

47. He refined poetry, wonderfully exhibitive
With consistent, refined, and cohesive narrative

48. Like finest eulogies, affirmative
Of goodness, virtues impressively descriptive

49. My friend of noble temper, understanding so keen
Brother of kindness, morals pristine

50. My learned friend, genuine and serene
Brother of words most delightful and sheen

51. You were gracious to gift me these verses seen
Unmatched by finest Arabian lute strings

52. These skillful lines were praised by eloquence deans
Amongst eloquent folk of pleasant miens

53. You honored me by this gift so pristine
Crowning me with these generous deeds

54. Remain the sea of gems, your gifts ever glean
Be to the age bountiful of your artisan's ream

55. Bringing joy, comfort, prosperity's beam
With life pleasant, mostly blissful dream

56. A star for glory, rising with fate's esteem
Rising fortunes at time most supreme

57. No meadow lark trilled at the thickets' seam
With melodies floating atop the tree screens

58. Nor has dawn's glow poured out its gleam
Visible, apparent to all eyes keen

59. God bless and bestow special peace
Upon your chosen Mustafa, the best emissary

60. Who all prophets led on night journey
To Holiest Place, to ascent most hallowed

61. And upon his companions, the approvals
And his family, so noble and laudable

62. As ears were filled with pleasant word streams
And son of opening, my Lord do for me deem

63. With acceptance and seal beautifully supreme