1. You are burdened with passion, while the slanderers burden me with blame,
And all the reproach, when passion took hold, turned into play.

2. Is it not enough that eyes turn away, indifferent,
While my hearing is veiled by the dignity of yearning?

3. My inner feelings are tickled, stirred,
When the days of life stand straight, they tremble.

4. Blame me as much as you wish - you did not tie knots or untie them.
You found fault, but did not split or crack anything.

5. For every dormant fire of passion in the chest
Blame will kindle it, and reproach will provide its fuel.

6. Oh how lonesome between me and you all,
When the heart is empty of the company of neighbors!

7. Your camels went far away, beyond my sight,
Cutting off my eyes, with the sands separating us.

8. Who can I complain of passion to, when it shook my pillow,
With tears flowing, or ribs that ache?

9. I have never regretted anything lost as much as living
While the neighbors of youth have been absent.

10. I used to steal my tears within my eyelids
Fearing to weep, but today I wail loudly.

11. May God not banish a heart that remained loyal to you,
Neighing and yearning did not avail me.

12. You took it unjustly, without returning it,
Maybe the plunder comes after the raid.

13. Where is your guarantee, before parting,
That no harm will reach it, and no doubts overcome it?

14. Taken prisoner by your betrayal - was it partial
Or did she revert from her faith, like the Arabs?

15. O people of my love - though I did not rightfully call you that,
These are just habits and paths we used to roam.

16. With them we used to scent ourselves, before your betrayal.
Today, every name of love between us is a stigma.

17. You resembled time in the changing of its coloration.
Each one of you is the ever-changing, fleeting colors.

18. You used to be, with the days, like their brothers.
But injustice towards me is the only blood tie between you!

19. Patience - even if worn over anguish.
I was wronged, but the patient victim hopes for reward.

20. Perhaps the absence of this luck will end for me one day,
And the firmness of purpose will bounce back.

21. Would that the perfection of the kingdom were impartiality,
Its opinions agreeing with mine, and the people's views probed thoroughly.

22. Rather, would that its judgments were its favors,
So its fairness in what it grants would be verified.

23. A noble youth whom I accepted from among those
Whose travels were difficult, and processions wandered.

24. I loved him with the love of my eye for its sister, and my hand for my hand,
And I had, beyond these two, still more love for him.

25. He protected me where I had no eyelid to watch over me,
Keeping and guarding me, when relatives do not guard against closeness.

26. He was gentle to my rights, covering over my faults,
As if he, in his affection, was my father.

27. He tended to my confused state, when no wind went along with it,
Nor did the clouds aspire to help it.

28. But a hand of fate overcame me in that position,
Which had long overwhelmed me with defeat.

29. An aversion that no conciliation occurred in it,
And a hatred like recoiling, though with no cause.

30. It hardened, so for the slanderers my ear was ready
To accept whatever they fabricated and claimed about me.

31. If they said I had stolen the hearing, or they directed
To me the changing of God's religion, or they attributed

32. That God's messengers were faced with disbelief from me,
Or that the books were distorted from my affair,

33. Then say to him may God beautify his loyalty,
While the truth surfaces, and the lies slink around furtively.

34. O you who criticize people, revealing their essence,
When did gold change its origin?

35. How did ill fate corrupt your news about me
Until it seemed to you that pearls were burning?

36. After you approved of me for twenty years or lifted me up,
Will you now deny my racing or my leaping?

37. The breach of my resolve is described to you, so accept it
With forgiveness, while the slanderer pulls you and you are pulled.

38. You all are too far above supporting an incident
Or unleashing your claws against me.

39. My sin toward you was love and sincerity,
For manners were always my sin toward my days.

40. By your protector and the established glory to them,
If I swore by them, and the religion and lineage!

41. I have never - and time's wonders do not disappear -
Thought the eminent were hypocritical in its market.

42. I was not surprised by my fate's injustice to me,
But your injustice is what is truly surprising.

43. O you through whom the life was set right, and around his uniqueness
The factions and nations united.

44. And who sufficed the kingdom what his blade did not,
And warded off from it what the armor did not repel.

45. And who frequented the horizon of glory, so the stars
Aligned with him, and meteors submitted to his command.

46. Upon your carpet every ambiguity is solved,
Which the prominent are preoccupied with, or the orators speak of.

47. And the halo of the moon is a hand you ride,
While at times it is the darkness of overlapping tails.

48. A cheerful, dignified, humorous and satisfied seriousness -
Were it not for the fluency, we would think him angry.

49. Morals flowed through you freely then coalesced,
And awe contracted around you, so chains and flames.

50. Gifts and praise have enriched you,
And positions of prominence and rest have tasked you.

51. Who lacks glory to support him
Will find through you glory without props.

52. I gained access, by your name, to the knot of sustenance, so it flowed,
Split open generously and burst for me.

53. And you were the means to the knot which manners
Were derived from, and holes were not pierced in.

54. You are the proud back's saddle, if my skin weakens,
And the pearl of life for me, with the well-rope grasped.

55. My number and betrayers are covered over,
For me, by you, the basin or the drinking place.

56. You brought me forward, so for me is the merit of precedence, and whoever
Drags behind after me is bent over and following.

57. My honor is in myself, but you increased my nobility
By my affiliation to you when I consort with others.

58. And people other than you, those whose poetry to insult me
Has pillars built up but no clay bricks.

59. If you are pure, I have no flowers or breast
From them, even if they hint one day or hurt me.

60. From you is the radiant brow for me, the smooth neck,
While people are the forearm and tail.

61. So do not let nights among you give me, by any hand,
Anything but affection, intimacy and tenderness.

62. And may the eyes of fate not strike you, for to perfection
Their glance aims, and their arrow misses.

63. And if the herald of Nawruz comes seeking oaths
By you, then the green pastures and plants.

64. For from your brows comes the light of spring for us,
And from your palms come the rains pouring down.

65. One day, the ascent of your glory
Will curve back tomorrow upon your kingdom, uncurved by eras.

66. You appear, from its beauty the eyes' good fortune, so for poetry
In you are the fortunes of hearing and enchantment.

67. As long as you remain, my days in your glory
Are as I love, and my states as they should be.