1. I have suffered from your aloofness, O enemy of the heights!
And sublime aspirations are the woes of the envious.

2. Time regained its vigor after the rapprochement
With men who rejoiced in estrangement.

3. You shepherded the return with renewed rancor
And changed your aspiration for leadership.

4. When the brave girded up his robes
For God's sake, what a day of strife!

5. Our land yielded in every place
And the lightnings of the valleys responded to us.

6. Every horizon bestowed its showers upon us
And every valley sent us its floods.

7. Is it time for wishes to demand
A need whose expectation was prolonged in hearts?

8. Between anxiety lurking in the writhing of lightning,
And resolve upon the withers of steeds.

9. And skill that is impaired each day
By chasing away or pursuit by chasers.

10. From hearts that have fluctuation in resolve
And hands that are facile with hands.

11. The aspirants care not where they climb,
And the pinnacle of glory is the secure pillar.

12. O life by which every living grieves
And the sequence of which is woeful in the valleys,

13. If he who feigns devotion to you ascends, destinations
Are twisted upon the heights.

14. Or if he takes your gifts, man is deserving of blame
When he checks the rein of his steed.

15. You stirred the will to glory but
The torrent produces lightness in the solid.

16. How can the generous employ and expend wealth
Other than one who profits from the lesson?

17. We are in a league that sees injustice as justice
And names misguidance the house of right guidance.

18. Amongst men the heights were shaken by the delegation of glory
And homelands prevailed over the expanses.

19. You are only God's blessing in the land
If you are a scourge to the slaves.

20. You have a nature recognized by the nights
And discerned in it is every sedentary and nomad:

21. Appointing the severity of threat against the days
A servant to the tenderness of the appointed time.

22. Can a miser be other than miserly
Or can a generous man be other than generous?

23. May time be rid of every misery,
Manifest serious, pure ancestry,

24. Joys by which eyes rejoice
As the eyes of visitors rejoice in vegetation.

25. Clear in purpose, humble in pretense,
Sweetening innuendo and assistance.

26. His palm took up the rock of resolve
That pounded the cliffs with seekers.

27. And a coward whom he turned away from so he passed the night
Tossing and turning from the clashing of the shields.

28. As if the eyelids were upon the beholders
The thorns of prickly pears.

29. May God not appease one who betrayed your covenant
And reciprocated your affection with hatred!

30. He thought imprisonment was baseness to you
While the pastures are protected by flooding.

31. Time fell short of its height yet it had been
With that gazelle long of stride.

32. And time humiliated you after you
When it had been among the proudest of worshipers.

33. You were a lion and he was a wolf but
Forms do not delight in contraries.

34. And he went to excess with what he gained over the days
Until excess gained over him.

35. His palm relented to the deaths
After he had not been one of the generous.

36. He thought the course would be long while in hopes
Is what cannot be attained by exertion.

37. Every living deceives life with fate
And each surpasses it with disasters.

38. If we returned to reason certainly
We would see death in birth.

39. Why does not the sick seek the dove?
Fate ruled its judgment in him.

40. If visitation were allowed him one day
He would have expended the coarseness of the visitors.

41. Or attacked an assembly whose wounds
Were slit by the tongues of the people there.

42. Thus souls gain from enemies
The cold of hearts and livers.

43. Every imprisonment becomes slight with nights
After imprisoning souls in bodies.

44. And you regained what you wished and sorrows
Are scattered upon hatreds.

45. You got some and you will attain all
The torrent is after the dripping of the spout.

46. What passed will not be repeated by nights
And foolish talk is not renewable.

47. How many a day I witnessed it and death
Casts its spears from the mountaintops,

48. While the gazelle pelts the clouds and the water of the pool
Flows over the hillsides and the lowlands.

49. It deployed the horses with neighing and the deception
Of horses had been a refuge for bodies.

50. O reproacher of time with the call of morning
Aspirant in wishes accomplished in purpose.

51. The tongues of assemblies will have one day
The vigor of praise in every club.

52. The Feast looked upon you like a full moon appearing
Briefly to the gazers upon feasts.

53. So joy sneaked in and today is
Decked out in margins soiled in hail.

54. Of an aspiration whose removal is for abasement
And whose diminution is not for increase.

55. If we could over the wishes we would ransom
The owner of offerings from the gazelle with enemies.

56. We only resemble you and resemblances are only
The natures of predators.

57. We are the embers from this flint
And the sparks from that kindling.

58. This is my gift to you and the best poetry
Is what was a gift of recital.

59. When I cast you into it my conscience
Surged for me an ocean with the best equipment.

60. I am from the elite of the Prophet and none other
Is counted amongst the children.