1. O he who was elegized by the tongue of poetry
And who spreads like anemones from his meadow

2. And whose ambition is like a throne for him
And that was counted as part of his foolishness

3. The days seem hard on you while you’re in them
And though most of that is due to their fickleness

4. So do not despair, for strangulation
Its tightness is cut by its own coarseness

5. For the cloud may break after the downpour
Though the earth was flooded by its burden

6. And the Lord of servants is gentle with them
So let not the self despair of His gentleness

7. Blessed is He who is Mighty in His dominion
And Sublime is the Overseer beyond description

8. Beseech Him when night falls
In what troubles you and in its relief

9. He will give you rest from the prison of the world’s abode
And suffice you from what you find yourself lacking

10. Of shackles and darkness in sorrowful Adham
Painful is your torment in its violence

11. He releases your ties from their captivity
And comfort for your heart from its agony

12. Or with a drink from the goblets of death
For living has tired him of its ugliness

13. And redoubled is the passion of one who’s imprisoned
The words of one absent from his side

14. Who says, and some sayings of the foolish
Kill if they are not hidden

15. Is this the ambition of one from Mecca
Who runs by his feet to his demise?

16. Does it not suffice him that the garb of life
Is tight upon him? Does it not suffice him?

17. He wanted to fly the flight of kings
And thought hearsay was his equipment

18. And he was like the leader of the army of misguidance
Gabriel saw him in its ranks

19. Yellow, trembling from his throat
When a man trembles from his nose

20. And I reckon the sword of the Prophet's grandson
Will redden its sharpness with his blood

21. I see the angel of death drawing near him
While he bites on his palm

22. O master poet, you wish for highness
While you fall short in describing it

23. You were not qualified to settle
Upon the seat of kingdom or its edge

24. Because you are more skillful than a poet
In the meanness of poetry despite its weakness

25. You shed blood after you protected it
And ignited embers without extinguishing them

26. And you quenched a smoldering fire
While your chest blazed without cooling it

27. By your life, I am clever among men
Whoever restrains or casts down his gaze

28. When the role model of a lad pleases him
Captivate him and look to his behind

29. To God I complain of matters that occurred
Without intent and make them rise

30. And how many speakers they imprisoned
For seeking the kingdom out of passion

31. Does one seek the kingdom who is not of it
Nor of its children or genre?

32. And one who had wisdom in sciences
Detention makes him deny its roughness

33. When the stick dries of its wetness
That is more conducive to snapping it

34. And the virtuous looks into his matter
Like the deficient looks into his weakness

35. For the death of the ambitious causes
Separation of companionship from its intimacy

36. So do not congratulate a man tomorrow
Who will be divided in half by the sword

37. I have been encircled by tribulations
Like an enemy circumambulating what borders him

38. And all are sinful for what they say
What one has said will be read in his scripture

39. And there is nothing but the pitfalls of time
And an opinion that misguides in its weakness

40. From me is greetings upon the people of Mecca
And love for whoever befriended or aligned with me

41. My life and after my death when
I am seen in the grave inside its enclosure