1. Did you not see the face of beauty shine bright and clear?
It appeared, outshining the lights, most luminous and radiant.

2. None can match it save its own essence,
Nor veil it save its own bounty.

3. When eyes gaze upon you, their eyes commit to you,
Making the glancing eyes of the waking sick.

4. And if meanings themselves were to gaze upon you,
Witnessing the passions, the souls of the enraptured would swoon.

5. So witness the teeming universe, find no shortcoming,
And you will find a beautiful face manifesting perfections.

6. The bending branches of the willow tree wept at dawn
Fearing the approaching south wind.

7. And every eloquent voice echoed its melody there,
With meaning, chanting, and lamenting.

8. And the fading lightning lit up its blossoms in the gloom
As the clouds were set aglow by the lanterns.

9. O exquisite beauty centralized in abundant forms!
Sorrow advanced, yet through eyes of praise.

10. He who has mastery and release took shape through them,
Of an incomparable and sublime rank.

11. If the eye of the ignorant sees the contrary
The eye of harmony and good counsel sees the truth.

12. The eye of the ignorant sees no untruth,
It is honest in every falsehood, so forgive it!

13. For pure being came not innovating,
While all else innovates, yet proper and good.

14. It is the ocean - no surface nor coast to it -
Soaring above it, walking upon it, and swimming in it.

15. Its waters stirred and its ships were anchored,
As every weeping soul reveals its hidden pain.

16. Virgins whose father was their mother’s doing -
Reason cannot fathom this clear enough.

17. O you who cast those ropes hunting game!
The game itself does the casting, none other.

18. Do not doubt the love of an affectionate beloved
If you named him “one who withdraws” in anger.

19. And if you are considered of little worth, it is not fitting
To say: “Musk itself has no scent.”