1. Our loved ones set out,
And took control of our hearts, so they triumphed,

2. If they move I'll kill him -
My knowledge, so where do you see they alighted?

3. They travelled and I wasn't told of their journey
Until I saw their beauty has been folded up,

4. And the next morning it walked away with them
In sorrow, I reckon, for our livers it walks,

5. How many moons in their chambers,
Galloping over hearts or tyrannizing!

6. And a kissing mouth appears its smiles
As though through it dawns were showing,

7. And a perfumed ankle with musk
From its banner when a comb touches it,

8. And large-bottomed it looks away
From its buttocks and breasts held high,

9. And their veils included white flashes
Beautified by grace not by ochre,

10. In them a gentle companion I was encumbered with
Like a roe deer when she bounds,

11. She twists her fingers over stirring
And her nimble fingertips provoke it

12. So by her left for him remains
A fist while by her right for him extends

13. Scattered, picked up,
And the scattered its collection brings together,

14. Grey hair came and they in number
So they left and old age descended,

15. They took solace and supplied you with sorrow -
Far between what they took and what they gave!

16. And memories of the farewell visit are for us
In both meanings all condition,

17. So their abodes did we water, dissolved,
No legacy, unleashed is its binding,

18. From Abu Bakr I have a brother, trusted one,
I never doubted his fraternity,

19. Same close or far,
Both nearness and distance from him,

20. Bodies yet spirits one,
Like two dots enclosing them a line,

21. So when needy I have through him family,
And when abroad I have through him clan,

22. Recalling him or visiting, examining,
You see in him a sea with no shore,

23. How many gifts from him did I pride myself
Not necklaces or earrings attain them!

24. Humble, easy his manners
And to enemy of his friend violent,

25. Praise profits through them a merit
But if dispraised his dispraise is plain,

26. And fruits of his meaning perfect it
While fruits of another's meaning fall,

27. And gardens of manners, fertile,
No blight or mildew blemished them,

28. And humility wherein aloofness heightens
And beauty excels when it lowers,

29. And when a man greyed, treacherously,
Then no sincerity in his affection!