1. My brother in affection, my kinsman brother
And my confidant beyond all desires, my beloved

2. And my distant patron says good
A near patron before my close patron

3. And the explicit did not testify for me
A sacrifice for the aloof in my absence

4. So do not seek my passionate mistakes
For I have not erred with passionate certainty

5. You wanted me to possess me hypocritically
Of sound facade but shady back

6. And tongues pretentiously portray me as sincere
And I know their innards full of flaws

7. Time may apologize for the affection of a boon companion
Erasing what wrongdoing preceded from sins

8. It came to me good whatever came initially
Without right over it or obligation

9. A hand extended from it missed with the hand of the clouds
Missing I fretted for the difficult year

10. So imagination depicted it to me as a heart
That sees suspicions through the unseen

11. Abu Hassan you began with it so complete
Even if you only give me my share

12. Your traits as they reveal my poem
The right hand of the quill sharpens the reed

13. We thirst and you have a waterskin
And you are the downpour of that waterskin

14. Abu Al Abbas, our sanctuary and joy
So say in the hillock or say in the dune

15. I accepted you then as hoarded for spreading
The sound, or spreading the blemished

16. And another whom I unwillingly dwelled with
As the geriatric dwells with old age

17. When you pardon me, my traits will be pardoned
For what a people imputed of my sins

18. If the beloved looks with an eye of kindness
The eye of the watcher is the easiest seer