1. By your lives, without you I have nothing left
Except sorrow - after you, what joy remains?

2. Bestow on me some fantasy from your minds
For your fantasies are my wish fulfilled

3. Lend me a hand that I may thank it
For gratitude ends not with the hand outstretched

4. I have no consolation but your ghost
That brings me closeness in the distance

5. My eye has wept until it sees no more
Save the spring of tears still flowing

6. My hearing is deafened by the reproacher
Of you - while my passion burns hot

7. Who but you can I summon for union?
Who but you can I call to break off?

8. I did not know before we parted
That love on the day of intent wreaks havoc

9. My sickness and my health lie in your affection
My ruin in your love, my guidance

10. With my soul would your lover ransom you
And the soul is the noblest thing with which to pay

11. My masters, have you no tenderness for me?
My keepers, do you not guard my love?

12. O you who deny the rights of love - can
The rights of love be lost through denial?

13. My tears, do not stop helping me
For patience has abandoned my fervor

14. I struggled to be patient but my heart
Refused, consumed by longing's fire

15. My eyes lined themselves with kohl in the night
A eye that Kohl disfigured from wakefulness

16. Alone drinking the bitterness -
No sympathizer for my overflowing grief

17. Parting witnessed increased his pain
When the lover obtained his sweet

18. If you do not guide healing to him
While your love makes him sick, who can guide?

19. I hoped for your success - do not disappoint my hope
I sought your protection - do not forfeit my quest

20. They left while my heart among their mounts
Complains of solitude and suffers isolation

21. I cast myself at the place they dismounted
Saying "Lay my cheek upon my cheek!"

22. I called to their guide: "For their lives stop!"
"Is there no limit to separation's barrier?"

23. Gently, gently with their lives! Have they not
Departed from making joy in asceticism?

24. Or are my loved ones not people of my time
If they do not keep their vows to me?

25. If they do not fulfill, the generous one has fulfilled
Abdul Rahim with the charge of glory

26. The virtuous elevated one, the noble pure one
Giver of dew, the magnificent glorifier

27. One who hopes does not lose his way
Rather he is assured of guidance

28. He bestows on me the bright light of his favors
While the illumination of his praise gives light, as I bestow

29. Of customary nature his manner
In it you see him uncompromising

30. Through his presence the fruits of my hopes approach
My distant aspirations and rest for my weary soul

31. Forever from his gentleness continues
An eye turned towards us in new birth

32. And my hopes see in his nobilities
Eyes that do not turn away in success

33. Zaki the carpenter, brother of the potter
Possessor of the shining immaculate lineage

34. Of lofty rank and noble glory
Of high lineage and ancestral nobility

35. All people are his followers
While fate is as a slave to him

36. The sea has ebbs but its serenity
Is an eternal sea in its flow

37. For him are the meadows, and his guardian forever
He is nurtured by him, and he nurtures the hateful

38. How the sea of his rhetoric raged chaotic, then emerged
As prose pearls threaded in a necklace

39. If he darkened the white, he whitened
Every dark cloth of the nights

40. A pen whose realms are cities
And their borders controlled and constrained

41. By its slenderness the robustness of ascension fattened
And in jest with it emerges the essence of seriousness

42. For his tongue are arguments by which
He forcefully refutes the firm cases of barbed tongues

43. A thirsty one who ruins any with thirst
So wonder at one with a bouquet though bouquetless

44. A king whose army is his writing
A unique one with the army of victory in soldiers

45. The brown calligrapher who follows him
In his judgment, and the white Hindi

46. Misfortunes are constantly cursed through him
Handcuffed, fettered in chains

47. How many perils has the coward been saved
From fear of eyelid and scabbard by him

48. By him the censures penetrated striking
The cohorts of warty cane shoots

49. And the bitterness - its critiques
Like the overtures of mischief in sleepy eyes

50. You relieved it with restorative jokes
And the hardness was softened with roses

51. With gentle management that gladdens
For its purity the heart of sincere loyalty

52. A custom that replaces despair for us
In adversity with the rejection of Chronic blight

53. I call you from the source of dew, O you
Whose splendor outshines the source!

54. From the captivity of your captivity is every praise
For you are truly the possessor of praise

55. And you repeat what you initiate, and double it
And who is the repeater but you, and the initiator?

56. O you in whom I found my eloquence limited
In confining what he grants and reckoning

57. Of all who have tied the tribulations from
My fortune, strong unbreakable ties

58. You scattered my enemies when they
Gathered for evil, assembled for harm

59. And raised me above the lofty summit though if
You had not enriched me I would have stayed in the valley

60. My superiority is fate's outcast
While its fortunes have completely departed

61. Fate betrayed every worthy soul
Refusing faithful conduct with blissful life

62. Increase the cultivation of your meadow - it has
Become far removed from keeping its vow

63. Your enemy's enemy is easiest dealt with
As long as you remain my defender against him

64. And thorns cannot complain of their crime
When one's purpose is plucking roses!

65. The sons of my time concealed his virtues
While my mother's reproach was with me alone

66. This is the time to fulfill your promise to me
The generous one fulfills his vow

67. One who braces his back with hope in you - can he
Remain in any state but fully supported?

68. Can the essence of my expectations be
Unrealized, not yielding essence?

69. Through your grace I subdue the antithesis
For your grace remains subduer of opposites

70. Aid me seriously with your commitment - you remain
Despite enemies, ascending in resolve