1. A time of every joy and pleasure,
Honor such a time, whatever time it may be,

2. I cannot praise it enough even if
I were given every eloquent tongue for praise.

3. Where the beloved is a companion and friend,
Where he can hear me and where he can see me,

4. And the embrace has its gems in an orderly necklace,
And affection's branches fruitful with intimacy.

5. After the worries of its tyranny ground
My liver, and wasted my insides and my pomegranate (heart),

6. And his concerns circulated in my guts
Going around to make the hair of the youths grey.

7. And I struggled over anguish and the waves
Of misery and torrents of calamities crowded,

8. With regiments black armored as though they were
The night of annihilation and faces of the blacks.

9. They began to roam my ribs so their wars
Did not pass by their fires any refuge,

10. And my wings are their battlefield and their threshing floor,
And the domain of every eager and sharp sword.

11. And the powers of my heart are the booty for their darkness
Divided one by one between them and in pairs.

12. Is it not right then for a wounder to wound my eyelids
And for me to drink the bitterness of sorrows?

13. And to become sleepless, and to grieve, and regret,
And to climb the ladder of anxieties?

14. My loved ones are between an absent companion
And an intimate now disgraced in the dust.

15. And a loyal affectionate friend who does not awaken
From grief over the loss of a comrade or place.

16. And their abode after intimacy is desolate
Weeping and making every solid garden weep.

17. Lamenting the heat of what it tastes though it only
Laments the loss of guiding nobles.

18. They were the lanterns of guidance for its people
So they scattered like the jewels of my eyelids.

19. Time pulled its deception on them so it rained them
With the tongues of misfortunes and sorrows.

20. And it dressed the bodies of the inhabitants in the clothes of sickness and weakness
After the softness of the bodies.

21. And how much it clothed one of pride with the disgrace of shrouds
After the prosperity of cushions!

22. And it folded the beauties of noble and generous ones,
And generous deeds that bring the right-minded joy.

23. With spear-stabbing armies knowledgeable of wars
And experienced in fighting mankind.

24. Its plague is not content with anything less than
Taking souls and does not say "enough!"

25. Until I became weary of life and its length,
And I saw my footing in it attain wishes.

26. And I envied the cotton vendor of graves and sometimes
The pigeon roosting on the pyres is tempting.

27. When a breeze scented with a name blew
From the west, scenting the corners.

28. Its scent heals illnesses and by its diffusion
It extinguishes the heat of every burning thirst.

29. It moves toward the east erasing
The diseases of breasts and the cloudiness of thirsts.

30. I called it, what is behind you, you are fragrant
With the scent that gives life to souls with your pleasant diffusion?

31. So it answered me saying I have come announcing
The arrival of one to whom the two burdens bowed down.

32. The sun of leadership, pure in his light
Through which the two moons are guided by his beauty's brilliance.

33. A shaykh whom his God granted perfection
The like of which no two eyes have ever risen to.

34. He illuminated the darkness of its gloom
So it appeared with a radiant, captivating face.

35. And he destroyed its regiments of worries with armies
Of harmful heat affecting every tongue.

36. It began to battle each audacious heat
Until the food of vultures turned barren.

37. And he removed its misery of sickness so it became
Green after the withering of branches.

38. And it was transformed into the abode of bliss when
It had been the sphere of misfortunes and disgrace.

39. And it became adorned as though its mud
Had never drawn the tear of a confused and despaired one.

40. And as though no ruin had befallen its homes
Or they were lofty palaces and gardens of Paradise.

41. And it exchanged greetings when it saw him in captivation
With the tongue of a state or the tongue of speech.

42. Until I saw its buildings inclining in rapture
To a mirror shaking with the trembling of branches.

43. And mosques and schools swaying
To peaceful surrender.

44. And its lessons swagger in clothes of splendor
As it welcomes the magnificent arrival ceremoniously.

45. And it says "welcome, O beloved, and greetings to you
O imam of the shaykhs of gnosis."

46. "O reviver of excellence after its lessons
And elucidator of minds with certainty."

47. "O builder of the quadrant of knowledge which desired
Above the celestial spheres below the ground."

48. "O son of nobles and elite of the virtuous
Among the people of caliphate from the children of Adnan."

49. "O son of the companion with the best ever to tread upon earth,
Umar, standard bearer of faith."

50. "And strengthener of the religion of Mustafa with evidences
And the outstanding tongues and horsemen."

51. "And clarifier of the truth of what he decrees with hints
Like the cracking of pillars."

52. So he made Chosroes taste a deadly cup of disgrace
As though he never tasted the daughters of grapevines."

53. "How I wish to thoroughly examine mankind that I may
Find the like of you again."

54. "And how much I asked people, is there anyone similar to you?
But I saw them all refusing any rival."

55. "From where do we find someone similar to you in existence
While they bow their necks to the mention of you?"

56. "And when you come out, you throw them into awe
That leaves the brave hero like a coward."

57. "Until when the terror passes, I see them
And all of them commending you with every tongue."

58. "Tell me, by your grace, what sin did I come to
That made me drink the bitterness of estrangement?"

59. "And you see my separation as purposeful and my tears
For that are seen by you as permitted to flow?"

60. "And for what reason have I not seen because of the grief
At your disappearance, O most noble and lofty?"

61. "And you left me wandering above the plain
Bare of life from the intensity of anxiety."

62. "Until I saw from chastity avoidance
And sympathy from every despicable companion."

63. "Did you reckon I have a beloved besides you who pleases me?
And I see solace in him apart from you exposed?"

64. "No, by He who gave you my companionship, there is
No one in my heart besides you and I have no second heart."

65. "And if I came with a crime, then you are the one
Who turns the wrongdoer to the clouds of forgiveness."

66. "Or was your estrangement not for a sin I came with?
Is it permissible for punishment from you of the innocent?"

67. "Perhaps your affection changed until it was
Spun by the spiders of forgetfulness."

68. "And when did your covenant in the world
Become of lofty fortresses and solid construction?"

69. "I do not know the reason for the estrangement, and would that
I had extracted from it a cure for my fluttering heart."

70. "But my eagerness led me to divination
So I saw from it the matter as clear as daylight."

71. "It is that what has been imagined is untrue
In a place where you are among the truthful."

72. "So you left me to see what was destined
In the situations of existence, made real in potential."

73. "And the righteous have additional honor
In which obstacles of time are ineffective."

74. "Especially as I witnessed a wonder in you
Which proves you are the delight of the notables."

75. "I saw that the stars of the celestial spheres
Moved unrestrained toward you."

76. "They knew you would visit a mansion
So they approached the west and declination."

77. "So if a doubter objects, perhaps
He does not know the horizons of hearts."

78. "And perhaps since you were the sun of knowledge
Its rays were obscured to him."

79. "The sun dazzles the vision of every weak-eyed witness
From perceiving it by intense staring."

80. "And you are far higher in rank and degrees
Than it, though the two seas meet."

81. "Can one praising you master praising you
And excel in meanings and ideas about you?"

82. "The greatest praise is that you are above its greatest,
And the greatest palace suffers in comparison."

83. "But what cannot be fully attained,
Let some of the feasible be attained."

84. "And pardon what I have boldly done
Where I encroached upon one of high position."

85. "One remains in inviolable territory taking refuge
In its fortress as long as the sanctuaries are inviolate."