1. O how fine her companions are!
O how fine her associations are!

2. Had we fulfilled her rights
With abundant flowing tears,

3. Her signs would have shone, with the erasure of pages.
Standing still in some of those places does not satisfy me,

4. And neither does the pure drink of wine,
From the light-footed one's hand,

5. While heavy in the howdah.
In ornamented gardens,

6. Adorned with the greens of meadows,
The ground was dotted with violet,

7. Like the dots of scripture.
And we have a narcissus that transcends

8. The ability of any describer,
With the eyes of onlookers,

9. And the eyes of maidens.
If you could see it swaying

10. Like the swaying of gentle gazelles,
Confused among yellow and white -

11. Standing still.
Like the black of gazelle's eyes

12. In the palms of young ladies,
Among crowned cypress trees

13. And cooing doves.
Like maidens when they don jewellery

14. Of short chemises,
And streams whose murmuring

15. Is like the stirring of lutes,
The gentlest of winds designed their carving.

16. How many a tear I have shed, while the torrent
Of calamities was let loose!

17. Her ostriches walk
Like the walking of bishops.

18. Swaying from their sides
Are the fringes of their mantles.

19. With an imam leading, in front of the row
Of raging winds.

20. Playing with their hands in travel
Is the play of checkered cloth,

21. Like a lance-thrower - no, like an archer - no, like a sword-fighter
Graceful when folding

22. Those battle ranks after battle ranks.
He continued folding the abodes of communion after separation,

23. Knowing the place of the Gnostics through Abul Hussein.
He is a young man whose disposition befits

24. The disposition of successors.
The king of generosity - his property

25. Is without scarcity or paucity.
So you see him giving generously

26. The generosity of gamblers.
With glory against the shameful,

27. And gentleness towards the gentle,
He is fear for the safe

28. And safety for the fearful.
A star never setting,

29. A moon never waning.