1. Your life, the tears are but rain drops
And the winks of the eyes mere wasps

2. The cheeks' dimples shine beams
Appearing in darkness as stars

3. When they rise their spears' points ascend
With their rising from them the wests light up

4. And the brow of the beautiful above eyebrows
Is naught but a crescent where no eyebrows existed

5. But its top it illuminated with its light
And its darkened lower part is the eyebrow

6. And my way with whom I loved is well-mannered
While people have ways in whom they love

7. I yearn for her distraught while tears pour down
And a lover's tears are nothing but falling stars

8. I disappear in passion while present
Can the presence of a lover avail if the lover is absent?

9. I incline towards her and she is undoubtedly what I seek
And my aim and I have no purpose but her

10. I fear the sun may see her beauty
And nibble it to bits visible to foxes

11. Though the horizon's sun is an eye
It has a sting unrestrained by antidotes

12. I am jealous if the morning breeze passes by her
And through its gentleness unlawful gains seem sweet to her

13. And steals the scent of roses from the rose of her cheek
And grey-haired men become enamoured by her scent

14. She is a unique beauty the like of which there is none
Nor any match for the sun that comes close

15. She sways and gazes like a twig and like a gazelle
And dawns like a star while the star penetrates

16. So if she appears dawn breaks truthfully in the night
While if others appear that dawn is but a liar

17. By my soul her breath is sweet wine
By which drinking became pleasant for me

18. While my eyes are intoxicated by the wine of poesy
And by the wine of yearning my eyes drink

19. She forbade me from beholding the sun of her face
So I said to her the wakeful are like me - watching

20. And how can I see her while my eyelids are eyebrows
By my life the telescopes are now so insignificant

21. That my eyelids are eyes and eyebrows
Oh my sorrow if the eyes are eyebrows

22. And the loss of my soul was no calamity for me
But oh the sorrows of my sobriety those are the calamities

23. She saw me thin bodied from the pain of love
So she said leave him so rivals will scorn him

24. And she suspected the paleness that afflicted my cheek
Thinking it grey hair while repudiated by the fool

25. It is not grey hair, it is but her light
Upon my cheek spreading while I am no greybeard

26. May God protect the people of passion, their hearts
Are struck by the glances of the beloved with accurate arrows

27. And may He revive my heart after dying of pining
And adversities had befallen it unlike other hearts

28. And I was weakened at the hands of enemies after I had been
Like the weakest house built by spiders

29. Oh woe my heart which pining has made it fly away
Oh woe my flank where my soul has turned away

30. However this is the law of passion
And through the like of it sorrows prevail over us

31. So rise my dear son and enter the garden happily
To inspire those who have sorrows with jest and play

32. Do you claim I have given up on my hopes
While hopes are liars like conjectures?

33. Leave this claim my nephew passion
Has killed many a youth his quests had missed

34. And delight my hearing with the beloved's remembrance
For that is an earring the flirts have coveted

35. And from me listen to the virtues of Ali
For virtues are transmitted regarding Ali

36. His virtues cannot be fully counted
But faults are counted regarding him

37. And they are but descriptions of his righteousness
With every perfection authors have relayed

38. He is the commander of the faithful in his time
Ancient in grace and marvels appear from him

39. A leader all the virtuous emulate
A requirement certified by doctrines

40. So if the greatest man in grace gave him allegiance
The literate would give allegiance to the illiterate

41. He is the recurring hero in every battle
Of the obscure and the covert and he is no escapee

42. He attacks with a mind faster than lightning flashing
And a thought rivalling shooting stars traversing

43. So if he surged in the battleground of debate and discourse
He frustrated the forbidden aims of mischief makers

44. And if he journeyed with pens across pages
The starlings would write with white beaks

45. And excellent in them the script like
The light mingling in them with darkness

46. And those are treasures of meaning so if they appeared
Wonders would appear over pearls and rubies

47. The yield of this time in beauty of form
Revealed issues of glory and glory became mandatory

48. And those issues made his supremacy obligatory
While for others they necessitated lowliness

49. So if the stretches of glory were mounts to ride
The high pursuits would wish they were comets

50. But God refused save that he prevails in merit
And not a mother or father blackened him

51. Though he did prevail in lineage glory
And that is lineage in which are glory and prevailing

52.
So this is the assured glory in the world

53. Your life what then is glory but grants?
What then are my praises and eulogies after this

54. But this quests praises though the slave is addressed
And if you did not describe him in the praise I lauded

55. Then in that praise I would blame you
So here is an immaculate ode I have composed

56. Upon which is wondrous eloquence and imagery
How many a suitor has it vexed with its beauty

57. And he was barred from fulfilling his hopes while disappointed
While you alone are permitted to it beyond all mankind

58. You alone are its suitor beyond all people
To you it is wed and settled and now

59. It is prohibited without doubt to strangers
It became concealed in my thoughts from others than you

60. For its knowledge that you in my thoughts attract it
And from you thought derives what you have granted it

61. Yet it guides you for you are the grantor
So if you accept it, it asks no more

62. While it deserves no acceptance is what it seeks
So pardon my shortcoming in praise and eulogy

63. Obligations and duties have eluded me
And that is repentance for my sin, no doubt

64. While one without sin has no repenting from sin
And live in the safety granted by God however much

65. The morning breeze blew and the clouds poured rain