1. I bow in the temple of wishes
The mind and the soul are shaken

2. In a night where no shooting star shone
Except it shot an arrow at me

3. And I said to glory, which is an apparition
I have not seen it since in any place

4. Before me is the path of my soul
And your fires should guide me

5. When a voice like a whisper threw
In my hearing these meanings

6. I am hidden like a secret or like
Destruction, vanishing in moments

7. I appear in the hour of accusation
Between misty smoke

8. And only the heart that sees me
Attains immortality from me

9. So my panting is but a crawling
That creeps in the fabric of time

10. So let not my smile deceive you
And Madness flung open my eyelids

11. I poured in the eyes of the stripping bare
The oil of prophecies from my springs

12. And I said to Al-Nasiri purify
Their sins with the precious blood

13. I said to Qays the lover of Layla
Recite poetry and die with raised forehead

14. I said to the snake sleep softly
You are a prophet after centuries

15. Silence in its holiness is my prayer
And inspirations of pain are my religion

16. No weak man climbs my ladder
I am not for gentleness but for violence

17. My reins are patience and deliberation
And strength of purpose in affairs

18. I carry in my orb excruciating agony
And the flame of fire on my forehead

19. The old man is like the youth to me
Whoever can, my right hand opens to him

20. When I specify the time of my presence
After a while or before a while

21. Some died under my arm
Before my shining lamp

22. And some died since I came
Until I strew flowers on their heads

23. Death in its glory is my emblem
And a blower in the gloom my bugle call

24. So I placed the kiss of eternity
Only on the edge of graves

25. Whoever seeks glory in life
Must buy glory with the last breath

26. I am a thousand singers in the night
My tune on the praise ground of ages

27. Death hears me in its darkness
As it paces the strides of ages

28. I drink from the tears of virgins
And from the blood of the great heart

29. And I do not keep alive a glorious memory
Except for the one of brilliance and conscience

30. Unless I devour a heart
That is stronger than eagles