1. If he whom it made passionate had yearned for it
Patience would not have parted him when it parted him

2. A lover when his heart tastes the coolness of union
Its estrangement from the beloved overwhelms and illuminates him

3. Look at my body, you look at a body
Renewal of its afflictions ruined it and gave it moral fiber

4. And a speaker, why has he not wept, I said to him
A true utterance, hoping he will believe it

5. My passion overflowed into my eyes and burnt them
My tears welled up into my heart and drowned it

6. O you whose eyelids equivalently oppose him
His belt unjustly making equivalence with what wrapped it

7. The narcissi of your cheek, who with roses adorned it
The line of your temple, who with musk immersed it

8. From the water of your face beauty remained in fatigue
In every storyteller meaning from it being sated

9. Its fringes have softened until I know not how much
A human has shed tears and made tender

10. You are the gazelle, the gazelle of mankind, its beauty decorates it
A guide and its magnificence, a figure and its splendor adorns it

11. You have owned my heart so sickness possesses it
So would you be kind to your owned and emancipate it

12. I see him most wretched in fortune of the desperate for you
The garb of non-existence made him its most wretched

13. A dream and non-existence, which is better, or is it said to him
“No” was all that was, made him content and imbecilic

14. So now I have freed my hopes, yet I cannot
Stop detaining from people its freedom

15. I roamed in opinion, ascending and descending
Its west and east wandered in my heart

16. But I did not find like Ali one befitting him
The adornment of sublime ones if I chose its most befitting

17. And that he who created guidance guided me
To praise one who ennobled deed guided it

18. It congratulates Abu Hassan since he left no
Trait of noble deeds but donned it

19. He loved glory, debased and lofty
And glory loves the most beloved thing one loves

20. So the deed gave back the crown of pride crowning it
His deeds and the collar of pride garlanding it

21. The buyer of the loftiest merit, the most precious of it
The wearer of it, the most splendid and luminous in it

22. The Indians fear the strike of his assault
The palm the eyes fancied the delicacy of its softness

23. He blackened no pages when he blackened it
But rather he morally pruned it with the scissors of thought

24. He reaches what his eloquence wills to reach
Creation seeks not and so does not overtake it

25. An indication to the speaking though not with a mouth
So the eye hears without the ear uttering it

26. He did not confront adversity gloomy leaving it
Unless he lit it with the magnificence of facility

27. A comet of thought if you lose its course
A key if you unlock its closure

28. An opinion fortressed from the garb of suspicions upon it
Since it built its fence and dug its moat

29. You meet Ali son of Ibrahim of moral fiber
Sufficient for you to request it to act morally

30. You meet penetrative resolute one an accurate one of intellect
An excellent one of knowledge and its climber

31. It misses him to remedy grave matters and gentles him
To solve that which winds from it and is kinder to it

32. So say to his envious detractor, yield to envy
If you were a paddle you would not parallel its twig

33. The spending one lessened not his expenditure
But rather spent seeking praise expending it

34. To God a platform of shelter he takes refuge in
When the turns of fate nestled its intimacy

35. Giving good news before the tribulation like clouds
If they begin, send ahead of torment their lightning

36. This, my praise and poetry about you adorned it
The truthfulness of praise from the composer and its fabricator

37. Corresponding, not like one who agonized rhymes so that
The words correspond in meaning and coalesced it

38. You see the enemies gloomy toward its reciter
They see from it the warbling of sharpness bluing it