1. ولم أَنْسَ ما عاينتُهُ منْ جمالِه

    وقد زرتُ في بعضِ الليالي مُصَلاَّه

    And I have not forgotten what I beheld of his beauty,

    when one night I visited his place of prayer,

  2. ويقرأُ في المحرابِ والناسُ خَلْفَه

    ولا تقتلوا النفسَ التي حَرَّمَ الله

    and he was reciting in the prayer niche, with the people behind him:

    “And do not kill the soul that God has made inviolable.”

  3. فقلتُ تأملْ ما تقولُ فإنه

    فَعالُكَ يا مَنْ تقتلُ الناسَ عيناه

    So I said, “Consider what you say, for it is

    your own doing, O you whose eyes kill people.”