1. Persist and submit to the vicissitudes of fate
Rising in the sky of time like a crescent

2. So you may attain perfection little by little
As the crescent progresses from state to state

3. Until you reach the highest level of nobility
That makes eyes shed copious tears

4. In never-ending ascension throughout the ages
And pride that does not fear decline

5. And compose rhymes in your poem that come
Spontaneously when you wish to improvise

6. And make the Pleiades your dwelling
Connecting the stars of Pleiades in your discourse

7. What poetry have you extracted whose rhymes
Are like magic that excites the nightingale

8. And wine when I wish to indulge
I drink it pure from my goblet

9. And of wine what is permissible
And of magic what is lawful

10. And of verse what is strung like necklaces
And of prose what flows smooth like drizzle

11. Whispers that if compared to Harut's magic
Would not be implausible

12. It is the work of eyes in the ardor of passion
That freed the gazelle to roam

13. Stealthy glances yet from your qualities
With them you unlock what is locked

14. It suffices that an eye saw you, delight of an eye
And a heart you set aflame

15. I have a yearning for you that softened
Until it was called lovesickness and weakness

16. Each day I say we will unite
While fate reverses hopes

17. Your morning is north and your evening south
If the morning is south your evening is north

18. With the regards of a lover whose mount
If guided would remove his misguidance