1. بانَ اصطباري والكرا منذ بان

    بَدرُ دُجى يَحمِلُهُ غُصنُ بان

    My patience and sleep have departed since he departed—

    a full moon in the dark, borne by a bān-tree bough.

  2. شاهَدَهُ القلبُ وإن كان قد

    غُيِّب واستوحش منه العِيَان

    The heart beheld him, though he had

    been hidden, and sight had grown desolate without him.

  3. لاقيتُ من بعد فِراقي له

    وَجداً شجاعاً وسُلُواً جَبَان

    After my parting from him, I encountered

    a valiant longing and a cowardly solace.

  4. ما ضرَّهُ لو كانَ للصبِّ من

    خوفٍ تَجَنِّيه عليه أمان

    What harm would it do him if the lovesick one had

    safety from fear of his unjust treatment toward him?

  5. واحرَّ قلباهُ وللعَينِ في

    خَدَّيه من حُسنهما جَنَّتَان

    Ah, my burning heart! Yet for the eye, in

    his cheeks, owing to their beauty, are two gardens.

  6. في صدغه الآسُ وفي خَدِّه ال

    وردُ وفي مَبسمهِ الأُقحُوَان

    At his temple is myrtle, and on his cheek the

    rose, and in his smiling mouth, the daisy.

  7. أسكنتُهُ قلبي وفيه لظىً

    والحورُ لا تَسكُنُ إلا الجنان

    I lodged him in my heart, though a blaze burns within it;

    yet houris dwell only in the gardens of Paradise.

  8. له من الصَّدر مكانٌ وللصَّدر

    من العلياء أعلى مكان

    He has a place in the breast; and the Ṣadr

    has the highest place in lofty honor.

  9. العالمُ العاملُ والفاضل الفاصلُ

    حُكماً بوَجيز البَيَان

    The learned man of action, the virtuous arbiter,

    rendering judgment with concise eloquence;

  10. والناظرُ اليقظانُ أغنتهُ عن

    سود جفون اللَّحظ بيض الجفان

    and the watchful overseer, who has no need of

    dark, glancing eyelids, thanks to white serving bowls;

  11. والكاملُ الفضلِ السريعُ النَّدَى

    والوافرُ العرض البسيطُ البَنَان

    and perfect in merit, swift in generosity,

    and abundant in honor, open-handed.

  12. وخُلقُهُ يُنبيك بالحسن عن

    أسرارِ أخلاقٍ لديه حسان

    And his character, in its beauty, tells you of

    the secrets of the fine qualities he possesses.

  13. ذو طَلعةٍ كالبدر في التِّمِّ بل

    كالشمس لولا هالةُ الطيلسان

    With a face like the moon at its fullest—rather,

    like the sun, but for the halo of his head-shawl.

  14. لو جَمَعَ الرحمن شملي به

    تَفَرَّقت عني صروف الزمان

    If the All-Merciful reunited me with him,

    the vicissitudes of time would scatter away from me.