1. My master, my master, your book is sweeter
Than fresh water upon the heart of the thirsty one.

2. I have worn in it Joseph's shirt when
My fingers stitched it to my heart.

3. Repeat the kiss, oh my mouth, and sip
From it the traces of the grace of those hands.

4. A melody named a book metaphorically,
I am the plant and it is the pouring rain.

5. My enviers increased until they imagined
My eyelids among the totality of the envious.

6. The eye said while producing a splendid pearl
From the seas of that ink,

7. “I ransom its whiteness with my whiteness,
I ransom its blackness with my blackness.”

8. I am the servant of Imam Ahmad, better
For me than my ancestry to my forefathers.

9. So peace be upon him so long as the birds chirped
And the lover sang poetry and the companion conversed.