1. The heart of meaning is refined through separation
So who will defend me from the injustice of the inflamer?

2. I commanded my heart, when love harmed it,
To be patient, for patience will undoubtedly bring relief

3. It feigned patience, yet it is frail and lacking
The futility of feigned patience is unavailing

4. And hopes had promised it union with the beloved
Yet hopes in their promises are oft deficient

5. God willed my infatuation to melt away
And that my eyes should weep in separation

6. I sighed in yearning for the absence of the beloved
Yet sighing brings no remedy in passion

7. Shall I blame his love when desire provokes it?
And my will in it remains ever weak

8. My love for him was never disloyal love
In his love, I have modesty and virtue

9. A gazelle from the Turks, ever aloof
One who loves not, nor befriends

10. He has a beautiful, radiant cheek, yet he veils it
While the sun beneath the veil is eclipsed

11. He has a seducing glance, kohl-lined eyes
That have enchanted many a mind and heart

12. I blame his sweet talk for my drunkenness
His moist, ruby lips like wine and nectar

13. I clung to him as a child, became his friend
For a lover's friend is honoured through closeness

14. He has flung me into a catapult of hardship
To a fire of exile he hurls and casts off

15. I swoon for him, crazed, not knowing prudence
And he who tastes love's bitterness surely knows

16. I grow jealous when the breeze blows on his cheek
Plucking the rose that on his cheek grows

17. Would that I were the zephyr breeze from the morning
For the morning breeze is not so bold in plucking

18. He has gained all beauty, and his beauty is perfect
Never once was his beauty deemed excessive

19. All beauty he contains, but his beauties
Surpass all others, for he is Joseph

20. Brother of excellence and nobility, son of charms
Father of glory, in whom glories abound

21. Generous in qualities, pillar of honour and grandeur
A branch of high virtues, where by praise he thrives

22. Noble in disposition and nature, which fold
Around the generosity of his manners and airs

23. Eloquent, adorning hearing with his utterances
Happy the ears that by such are delighted

24. I have praised you, son of the most generous, with an ode
I was concise, though prolixity would be unjustified

25. Prolixity, O son of charms, would not avail,
Save undue length which would be cumbersome

26. Who can enumerate all your charms
And compose a panegyric which captivates and overjoys?

27. It is no wonder you are son of charms
You by them, beyond all mankind, are described

28. You are attributed to them and they are honoured by you
O pride of them, in you they are honoured and prized

29. You are not different from them, O son of generosity
Save that through you they are known and recognized

30. So take from the virgins a necklace of unfading verse
Adorned in its strands with the jewels of your praise

31. Modesty has deferred it from you, as if
From whence it came, it returned in reserve

32. So accept it with kindly grace, as befits you,
For from you, noble brother, kindness is sweet.

33. Remain in God's safety, for as long as a star shines
And the leaves on branches flutter and wave.

34. Where the son of Fathallah with his poetry
Has composed odes describing your qualities and traits.