1. How much yearning for you and passion,
And rejection from you, and rejection!

2. And love for you - if only love
Brought benefit to the passionate lover -

3. Chastity, then virtue - evil does not harm
Love in every tryst with the chaste one.

4. They abandoned us, without blaming themselves, though they maintained
Contact with one who reproaches and censures.

5. And we sought loyalty until, when
Procrastination and delay became easy for us, we were content.

6. How can one who was satisfied by passion hope for much
Until he was content with little?

7. Between the sanctuary and the side of the sand dune
Are meanings from the conversations of the tall gazelles.

8. Givers - no, withholders - and the tearful ones do not complain
About necklaces and combs.

9. They confronted you with courage - it is challenged
By the glory of their souls in the swords.

10. Askers of the caravan, where is the rain cloud
From the atmosphere of the square and summer?

11. With tents around which the tracks abound but are not
Satisfied with the patches of the roofs.

12. The pleasure of union is remote when there is
Plunging into the spear and tearing through the ranks.

13. And beyond that ridge of mirage
Is a barren expanse covered in gravel.

14. A withholder who does not give generously of the water,
Distracted by fear of the spear and the neighing.

15. Made of sticks immersed in the cold sweet
For a long time, and of a strong rod.

16. A place where sorrows are assuaged and
Purity increases over the roads of the lofty plateau.

17. Every day farewells of a hastening caravan
Or the effort of a standing caravan.

18. So I often glance towards the burdens,
And stand long at the abode.

19. Do not turn your eyes to misfortunes, for they only
Return to one with downcast eyes.

20. Leave a man in his abode, for you will not find
One standing still, nor anyone being stood still.

21. Count the neighbors present when they are stingy
In counting those far from you who are aloof.

22. Worry preoccupied its people, and we had
A night free of the imaginary visitor's deception.

23. And the guests of worries - since they only alight
On the great and noble.

24. Like a soaking wet person, the visitors crowd him
And his familiar dwelling.

25. Time has not refined me, but it has
Caused the time's branch to creak under my refining of it.

26. I said to fate one day when it tried to distract me
From my past gardens and my aloof soul:

27. Go back in disgrace, and seek for the stench of
Humiliation, Oh time, others than these proud souls!

28. You have not completed my twentieth year, and yet
Forbearance from me is abundant in the mountains.

29. In me is the meaning of old age in wisdom
Even if my rising from youth was easy.

30. And when there is cold in the hand and eye
It makes warmth unnecessary.

31. It shook my compassion for the most uncouth father,
A grudge that twists upon it, and my leaning towards him,

32. And a conflict that inclines to him with the calls
Of my disdainful scolding and rebuke.

33. How can I not conquer time when this
Reproach rises over time as my ally?

34. Words like spearheads - the whetstone made them smooth -
And a face like that of Heraclius, frowning.

35. Your complaining about fate indicates to me
The level of its weak intellect.

36. Does the unknown swim an ocean and not shed
A drop for the virtuous and well-known?

37. Others before you presented offerings, and you were
Humiliated, but the noses of others are not prone to bleeding.

38. And blind fortunes - from the one with nights -
Married the daughter of Aamir from Thaqeef.

39. Fate shot an arrow of venom at you
And protected from blame the familiar stain.

40. If you missed out on the provision that he attained
Then the remedy for the weak is the effort of the strong.

41. A known sin, yet more seemly than
The idleness of some rulers.

42. So be patient with troubles - the patience
Of many has cleaved a dawn from their fearful night.

43. We only wear armor as a burden
For returning to the lightness of the pliant coats of mail.

44. How much you have borne with a back
Of patience, yet it lightened while the burden remained heavy!

45. The most deserving of patience, if it troubles him,
Is one whose close camaraderie with it is abundant.

46. It is not absent from the blackness of my heart even if
The meaning of misfortunes and sorrows was absent.

47. Be pleased with the descending misfortunes
As long as the descending candles do not shun you.

48. Do you see us able to ward off what the renovator of the decayed palm branches and the courageous lion have brought?
The imperfect rushed, while fate hastily

49. Drove the virtuous with a painful whip.
One who is virtuous lives amongst people with

50. A brave heart and an afflicted mind.
Whenever one exceeds in intellect, he ends up

51. Lacking in adaptability and pliability.
It is no wonder that I surpassed and outstripped

52. The thoroughbred horses and the well-trained.
You, O horseman of words, went ahead

53. And left a place for me as follower.