1. عذيري من قلب لقد هام هائمه

    اجاهره طور الهوى واكاتمه

    Who will defend me against a heart whose lover has gone mad with love?

    At times I disclose my love to it, and at times conceal it from it.

  2. غدا كفراش مستفز الى الغضا

    عليها بآه الوجد قد حام حائمه

    It has become like a moth, drawn toward burning ghada wood.

    Its wanderer has hovered above it with a sigh of longing.

  3. وحب نأى اعطى الزمان ومامه

    على زعمه ان الزمان يسالمه

    And a beloved who went far away handed Time his reins,

    Believing, as he claimed, that Time would leave him in peace.

  4. وقد نقض المثياق والعهد ناكثا

    ولم يدر ان الله عن ذا يخاصمه

    Yet he broke the covenant and the pledge, faithless to his word,

    Not knowing that God would be his adversary over this.

  5. ولم يبلغ الآمال خائن ذمة

    ولو طرقت سطح السماء دعائمه

    No betrayer of a trust has attained his hopes,

    Even if his pillars knocked upon the roof of heaven.

  6. ورب جريءٍ حارب الله مقدم

    اوائله نصر وخزي خواتمه

    And many a bold man has charged forward to wage war against God:

    His beginnings are victory, but his endings disgrace.

  7. بدايته تبدي نهاية امره

    اجل كل شيء منه تبدو علائمه

    His beginning reveals the end of his affair;

    Indeed, everything gives forth its own signs.

  8. وما العز في الدنيا بعز اذا مضى

    اخو الطيش والاخرى بها الحق قاصمه

    And worldly glory is no glory when he passes away—

    The reckless man—and in the next world the Truth will crush him.

  9. وليس يضيع الله طاهر نية

    ولو ملأت بر البرايا جرائمه

    Nor does God abandon one of pure intent,

    Even if his crimes filled the land of humankind.

  10. وان سليم القلب يمسي ولم يزل

    وللناس فعل البر طورا يلازمه

    And one sound of heart reaches evening, as ever,

    Attended, at times, by acts of kindness toward people.

  11. وابيض اثواب قد اسود قلبه

    تشب لاضرار الانام عزائمه

    And a man in white robes whose heart has turned black—

    His resolves flare up to harm humankind.

  12. يرى المكر دينا والخيانة ديدنا

    لقد ساء فالا شأنه الله هادمه

    He treats deceit as religion, and betrayal as a way of life.

    His affair indeed bodes ill; God will overthrow it.

  13. فقولي اسلمي للحبيب الذي طوى

    على المكر درعا ليس يسلم سالمه

    So I say, 'Be safe,' to the beloved who has wrapped

    Deceit in armor; no one at peace with him is safe.

  14. واني لعمرو المجد من بيت هاشم

    وماذل بيت عزفي العرب هاشمه

    And I, by the life of glory, am of the house of Hashim.

    Nor was a house humbled whose Hashim was exalted among the Arabs.

  15. تصدر في صدر المعالي عليه

    وقد فطمت عن جرعة الغي فاطمه

    Its Ali took the foremost place among lofty honors,

    And Fatima was weaned from the draught of error.

  16. واكمل آيات الثبات حسينه

    وجعفره شمس العلوم وكاظمه

    Its Husayn perfected the signs of steadfastness,

    And its Ja'far is the sun of the sciences, as is its Kazim.

  17. وقد رفع الغوث الرفاعي مجده

    وبالصيد صياد المفاخر ناظمه

    And the Ghawth al-Rifa'i raised its glory,

    And among noble lords, Sayyad, hunter of glories, is its poet.

  18. وآل خزام فالخزامى عبيرها

    حكى مجدهم والمسك بالند خاتمه

    And the house of Khuzam—the lavender's fragrance

    Echoed their glory; musk with incense is its seal.

  19. اولئك قومي والرجال معادن

    وما ضر مجدي طيش حب يزاحمه

    Those are my people, and men are mines.

    Nor has my glory suffered from a beloved's rashness that challenges it.

  20. احباه يكفي الصد والبعد والجفا

    ومرسوم هجر انت بالهجر راسمه

    O beloved, enough of rejection, distance, and coldness,

    And that decree of separation you inscribe through desertion.

  21. وبدل افانين الصدود برحمة

    فراحم اهل الحاجة الله راحمه

    And replace the many forms of rejection with mercy,

    For God has mercy on whoever shows mercy to those in need.