1. The beloveds bent their necks as the ruins were laid waste
What has happened to me was indeed momentous

2. They deserted me after the first separation, though they were bent
By the machinations of fading vicissitudes into garments of humility

3. So I was left with barely discernible vestiges
Or an apparition, phantom, or stain covered in patches

4. Stop at it and bewail it, for in me are maladies
From the intensity of my passion for it, so that it may cure my ailments

5. With it, assemblies overwhelmed me at a leisurely pace
With cups of musk, which intoxicated me with them

6. Ask about his family, for I am charged with them
And the eye of loyalty is to ask, so ask

7. I stayed with it a time in oblivion
Reveling in the chill of youth, ripe

8. They said, "Do you not ask about the memorials of its times?"
So I said, "The passionate does not profit on the day of asking"

9. The eternal garden is not in the hell of one
Who spends the night raging with passion and is preoccupied

10. I do not forget the anguish of the day of separation, their departure
Measured by milestones - the outstretched fingers of the guiding posts

11. They went high above every fanciful illusion and ascended
With litters above them and above the litters, pavilions

12. I continued to watch them while the family was beneath them
Until the tears of my eyes overflowed and slipped down

13. My pact with it before their riding-beasts were goaded -
The bangles clinked and the anklets jingled

14. Appearing in the sleeve of the delicate young shoot of nim was
The citron-wood stirring the wine and honey

15. In it and in the mouth of the cup are virtues
It covets, like the light of flames and strips of motley cloth

16. They said, "The herd of mountain goats reminds us when
They bleat," and it reminds if the waving palm tree sways

17. So I said, "Their bleating does not resemble this
Nor are they delicate, fine mountain goats or weaklings"

18. The blood of its lovers was shed, so they have no
Sense - would one in love with a slain man have any sense?

19. If it spoke from the heights of a towering ascent to plead,
Its cooing voice would entice down the doves

20. Saying, "O beloved! You have prolonged absence - enough!
Have you made us equal after us as a substitute?"

21. So I said, "Do not think I have taken
A substitute from you, nor listened to any justice in loving you"

22. And I have not been consoled for your distance after your remoteness
Nor hesitated in my devotion to you out of boredom

23. O beloved! I am one firm in calamities when
The claws of adversities bare themselves against me

24. I accomplish momentous affairs when I desire, even if
I venture upon the formidable and the difficult - it becomes easy

25. Threats from enemies do not deter me -
I have been tested before, so I know the brave hero

26. But the news came to me that the vile ones have become notorious
For villainy - they boast, "This is really immorality!"

27. Boasting is only for one whose birth was pure
And who was nurtured by firmly established ancestry

28. Your boasting in corners is nothing but laughable -
You have never been accustomed to knowledge or deeds

29. You have corrupted religion until it has become mixed-up
And knowledge until it has tattered remnants

30. The wares of Iblis thrive because of you, so for you
In the heart of Iblis is a love that does not compare

31. You obeyed him, so you have become his messengers -
Disobedient to his commandments, you messengers!

32. More astray than all who have gone astray
Is he who led you astray from the paths

33. When the intimates gather, your title
Belies you, while the case testifies, altering titles

34. We came to you with a delegation from the Bani Hasan
Whose noses look down on all the high-minded

35. When we alighted, you disdained us stingily
Though almost your father welcomes all who alight

36. You betrayed us and betrayal was your wont
Before, and you prepared infirmities for our lodging

37. You harassed us with what your women are accustomed to
The hand of a wretched harassing woman was paralyzed

38. Is this what the proud, honorable ones do when
Delegations of honorable, eminent nobles come to them?

39. May Allah fight you from every living thing - damned are you!
In time, none like you has been created possessing faults

40. Your wickedness and deception and disobedience and cunning have been brought together in you by Allah
If you are mentioned in the regions of Muslims, you show disgust

41. The intellect of the suckling babe among you, while still nursing
Is like the intellect of one whose hair has turned white in his locks

42. O my ignoble son! With what were you boasting,
Rendering me ignorant of your dishonorable ancestry?

43. Do not seek benefit from the Family of Zain,
For they did not raise you up, nor did you attain hopes through them

44. You were disgraced among people and degraded
And you became disgraced among people and degraded

45. Whoever seeks elevation through them, his paths are straitened
For they are harsh shepherds, all of them ignorant

46. As for your cherished support, it is feasible
If not for your poverty and begging for crumbs

47. You have continually praised them fulsomely, trailing
The trains of your gown, though the one praised did not give at all

48. The elder, O Ghumr, is only one who ascended in
The degrees of the Hallowed Court and peered downward

49. Love of Him pervaded everything with a living soul
And His knowledge encompassed all who sought refuge in Him

50. And the development of knowledge in Him quenched the thirst
Of gnosis - all who dwelt in His protection became devoted

51. And every trace of hesitation in Him was avoided
And the veil of vain desire was removed from Him and united

52. Holding fast to the bond of submission, avoiding
Caprice, directing with the hand of empowerment, compliant

53. As for the one who was concealed in baseness
Passions and fantasies coursed through his heart

54. Engrossed with people's faults, filled up
If God is mentioned, he mentions sheep or camels

55. So he is not an elder, and whoever takes him as his authority
To the path of disobedience, vain desire and arrival

56. And your being the son of Jalaa requires proof
Since the truth with us is that you are the son of emptiness

57. You were a sponging foundling, and grew up just as
You were a child, and were not occupied with attaining nobility

58. If they present you for composing poetry, then
Chaff may be fed when no food can be found

59. As for your pretense of piety, it is pure treason -
You did not intend by it the face of God, Most High

60. Rather, it was hypocrisy from you for the flock, so that
You may hunt from them when they swarm to gifts like bees

61. And that your mother never straightened her spine denies
What you said, indicating that she was not honored with reason

62. It does not enter one's heart that you could disparage me
When I am a branch of the towering tree of language

63. I practiced composing poetry before you and did not
Recite it to them without it pleasing their hearing and dissolving

64. And they admired it, and were satisfied with my discourse while you - when
You were absent from it, it only increased with me in elevation and ascent

65. How many feeble poets I have left routed in adversity
When the wounds of satire became congealed

66. So here is a pearl of poetry not contrived
That will give you a drink if you understand its essence, O dolt!

67. Respond quickly - do not prolong it for me
For I was not one to prolong it for you