1. The lightning of passion flashed over the sand dunes
And it began to drag tails of clouds

2. It shone and the night had extended its darkness
So it responded with a flame that flickers and with gold

3. The tear of sadness had not rolled down a cheek
Until the meadow's lip smiled with joy

4. And the leaves in the branches sang cheerfully
And the wind shook the boughs of the sedges

5. And the morning pitched its army's tent on the horizons
And the night crept away in fear of defeat

6. So I said to my companions, arise for the dawn with me
O the fragrance of a beautiful morning and friends

7. And laugh at fate for you have laughed
As the cup of wine laughed from a lip of loved one

8. So the cupbearer came rushing with it glittering
As if it were the milk of the Pleiades not grapes

9. Red, radiating light in its glass
Like the sun in the full moon dispelling the gloom of sorrows

10. And he swayed gracefully, adorned with a loose outer garment
Of striped fabric of the make of a well-tailored robe

11. Amongst youth in whom cheerfulness was manifest
As if he were the full moon among shooting stars

12. With swaying gait, sweet of gesture, plump
Wandering in beauty and vanity and conceit

13. He mixes the wine only from his casket
So enjoy as much as you wish of wine and music

14. The opportunities for pleasures are available so seize them
And make up for what you missed and anticipate the common fate

15. And utilize your time while it passes you by plundering
The days of your prime plundered by the claws of time

16. And do not water at a place of companionship and so go early
With the memory of what has passed in previous eras

17. That time turns back and forth on the two conditions
And have you seen a time other than fickle?

18. But man is only given what his resolve grants him
As his fortune in fate, of seriousness and of play

19. How the nights have tossed me around in their procession
And I was the delight of merit and propriety

20. The days increase me in honor and favor
As if I were Indian gold in the flames

21. I do not avert the truth even if it hurts
Nor do I doubt with the eye of suspicion and doubt

22. I have sought the sublime until I attained
That which cannot be attained, so it was the limit of my hopes

23. It sufficed me of honor, I aspired for the highest
That I belong to the order of faith in my lineage

24. This is my father when a master is consoled for a father
Alas! The world, o fate, has no one like my father

25. A pole around whom the millstone of the eminent rotates
Does the millstone rotate except around a pole?

26. Like a lion and rain in determination and in generosity
And flowers and time in cheer and anger

27. A ruler whom thousands repose comfortably in his care
So how much distress has his struggle relieved?

28. By him India seemed to the wise
Like an India with sagacity and glory

29. A master - if one in need resides in his abode
He enriches and fulfils him without a pouring rain

30. You see the extent of time in wonders from his virtues
While we are in all the months of time in spring

31. He ascended the highest pinnacle
And settled from Hashim at the highest rank

32. Defender of the truth from a people whose habit
Is to strive to their protector with earning effort

33. The smiling lip and the downcast eyes
And war howls and the horsemen with war

34. He stands alone in the fury of battle
On the day of struggle, in the position of the solid battalion

35. If lionesses of the forest met him baring fangs
They would turn away regretting they had not fled

36. Poetry falls short, his praises do not fade
In prose or verse, of poems and sermons

37. He remains a succor to the anguished, and a protection
For the frightened, and safety for the stricken

38. The breezes of the wind have not fluttered a branch of basil
And the lightning did not flash over the sand dunes