1. How long will she complain of confinement?
Perhaps if you trace her, she will find a way,

2. Revive her markets and unleash her yearnings,
That she may find fertility's markets lush.

3. If she won't gallop and leap,
Then give her time and the gentle pacer,

4. Delay her seeking the farthest places and leave her
Aimlessly casting the sunsets into the dawns.

5. For it's impossible, unless her strongholds
Are demolished, for you to gain your rights.

6. Reason with her and let her be content with cooing;
When she yields she will be fitting.

7. No lad has pitied a lineage
And been tender toward its riding-camels

8. Except he will plunge their hooves into the billows
Until he sees her swimmers drowning among the family.

9. Or the highlands make her sweat blood
And she leaves only bones and veins.

10. The essence of the pebbles is picked from her,
Pieces of blood describing carnelian.

11. With it the skilled archer hits his target -
The accomplished is not helmeted above or below.

12. It decides the South of the land for her
With arrows of determination loose and feathered.

13. Patient toward the migrants and wanderers,
Seeing with his troop of horses life made slight.

14. When the waters are cut off for the she-camels,
It suffices him to prepare the lightning for them.

15. He implicated her, so either she obtained good -
An effort coinciding with the guided ordinance -

16. Or she is disappointed, but I am not
The first seeker deprived of attainment.

17. I see the days take and then give
And rend and then mend the rending,

18. And kindle their fire tightly for some people
And in some people stifle it into a blaze.

19. All her shifts to me are equal,
Whether checkered or plain or bitter.

20. Oppressions - if they were raised to a generous one,
He would be sincere in concealing her shame.

21. If she called on the perfection of the sovereign, she'd find
Over her injuries, his healing gentleness.

22. She lowered the most monstrous of weights from him
To one with two sides who carries her firmlysupported.

23. Jealous, he does not sleep amid the violating of
Dignities, nor lies, nor dereliction of duty.

24. A perception moves him from resolutions -
Trampling her mountains, docile, most docile.

25. If he takes the route to the heights,
He prepares no provision and takes no friend.

26. Alone, events humble themselves before him,
With their necks bearing an ancient blade.

27. The intelligent in opinion rises above the advisor
When the opinion nears being carried out.

28. When the symbols of every matter are hidden,
The exalted one discerns them precisely.

29. So if he wished to distinguish between one water
And another like it, he'd find the differences.

30. The mother of ministry grew from her brother
And the full moon and elegant branch grew from him.

31. The two are children of kinship and piety
When disavowal is born among the people.

32. Some whom, when they cry for help,
You see the earth constricted by them.

33. Regiments the like of which your eye never saw,
Poisonous and flags lowered.

34. Their brilliant command you'd think haphazard
When they gather, and any one of them a brigade.

35. Long-necked in speech, warriors of onslaught
When the eloquent are made mute.

36. They have a nobility that crept from Kisra's back
Step by step - they did not miss the path.

37. The servant of the Merciful folded their ribs
Or he came, marching them together, marching them along.

38. You see the father, by the testimony among his sons,
Is near, while he has grown far.

39. Souls cannot rise up or become pure
Unless they systemize the venerable lineage,

40. And the sign of Abu al-Ma'ali has appeared -
So he became a worshipper who gained precedence.

41. Perfection grew alongside him, so it split from him,
Giving him a title, and becoming his namesake.

42. Temperaments - sometimes made to drink mint,
And sometimes sparkling with pure wine,

43. Rousing anger and pardon from them -
Its lightning bolts and pouring rain.

44. So in one state with them you are agreeable,
And in another state with them, you are hostile.

45. And what intoxicates you sobers you from them -
So you are never done being sober and intoxicated.

46. Your ransom is meeting the bitterness of all faces, however
You find the bitterness of dispositions - how it was tasted!

47. You see him energetic, coming and going,
While the fetter of incapacity makes him apathetic.

48. If they isolate him, he won't fear an enemy,
And if they appoint him, he won't rely on a friend.

49. He sees you with the backs of his eyes angrily
When you have harmed him, eyelid and gaze.

50. So neither have the nights stretched out to you
A long hand, nor fingers clinging.

51. And if the auspices of each day in the morning
Greet with good fortune or little luck,

52. Then the singers sing to you and then weep
For your abodes other than you - wailing or moaning,

53. And your generosity's earnings reward your generosity
With returns that bring the lovers back emaciated.

54. When it pours down it spreads wide,
And when it holds back it digs deep.

55. So it binds in your meadows or levels
Encampments that captivate the roving glance.

56. You are visited by complaining women every day,
With inflamed desires or infatuated hearts,

57. Raised before your hearing, taking a stance,
Either accepted by you or spurned.

58. How often she stumbles on a mistake unwittingly,
And you are true in sheathing it!

59. One enflamed by sin becomes a servant -
You forgave his error and he became free.