1. With resolve, not with efforts, honor is attained
The resolute walk with people even when they stop

2. Time has brought about a temperament that does not last
Generosity and stinginess, fulfilling and failing

3. With his aloofness, the lover hurts those longing for him
One day intimate, another day distant and flirting

4. My soul was amazed at the greying that afflicted it
While my censurer blamed my greying and sorrow

5. The worries of the soul still knock
The messengers of whiteness interchange to the temples

6. When thirty and forty come to him
He fakes about his youth and turns

7. He has no youthfulness that a ruin is mourned for
Nor any passion that an honor is elevated with

8. Where are those who shot my heart with their arrows
And did not cure me of the disgust they caused

9. The heart complains of their loss, which they wounded
And the eye weeps for them, which they made shed tears

10. How often fear came to me from what I felt secure of
And how often I felt secure from what makes my heart dry

11. One may feel safe from an arrow that will hit him
And one may fear what turns away and veers

12. When I saw your assumptions miss their mark
And your intentions toward me were lower than what I hoped

13. I turned my soul away from you while it was singing
And the soul turns away sometimes, so it turns

14. Neither despair nor hope shook your branch
Nor did seeing your abundance show softness or violence

15. You have no outlook in the folds of generosity
Nor any succession in the backs of glory

16. My honor and pride refuse for me
To hold on to a rope of delusion that has no end

17. Dispel the darkness of a night you grope
Though the darkness hides you, dawn will uncover

18. Look forward to the dawn, for the dawn is anticipated
And sunrise elucidates what nightfall rendered ambiguous

19. As if when I seek your bestowal
I am one begging from the deaf rock that scoops up water

20. And when I call you for marriage, I fear it
Like one calling out to someone the sea has embraced

21. You were not like my swords when I brandished you
Brandishing the swords when I unsheathe and wield them

22. O shepherd of the lambs, you did not become among a group
The lambs are watered and the great gather honor

23. How wondrous is the crooked distribution fate makes
The abode is one, yet the meadows are different

24. If I am deprived of the sublime ones who were granted
I have certainly been ignorant of the vile ones who knew

25. I will set out the camels, then make them kneel down
Where the dew has settled and honor has taken residence

26. As if among the men of the caravan is apprehension
Shuddering with fear while the female camels bellow

27. In an abode where most of what is promised is breach
For the hopeful, and in its rule there is no injustice

28. Where rights stand affirmed in their bounds
And every one who judges time is impartial

29. He who pleased with the matters in his early youth
His opinion is well-informed and his life renewed

30. The generous ones have come, children to him
As fathers to him preceded and went before

31. O son of the foremost ones, they descended to find the lofty empty
Pearls are discarded while seashells are thrown

32. The predecessors, so no leaning nor isolation
And the carriers, so no injustice nor feebleness

33. For me among them all are successors to every absent one
And perhaps the successor surpassed the limits of the predecessor

34. Every day you are a leader against an enemy
Driving away the cowardly for your aggression

35. In peace, pouring with harmless weakness
And in war, flashing with thundering might

36. From mountain paths, its waters covered with repelling
And from spear stabs, its wells collapse

37. You rise up as if you and intuitions are soaring
Near to understanding the commoners' gibberish

38. As if the sword of old age is not a guest that
When it comes, refrains from heads

39. So take up glory anew, while your time is green
As if time in you is a garden luxuriant

40. And remain lasting as the full moons in their emergence
Except the full moons, for the full moon becomes eclipsed

41. The young she-camel strives purposely and it has gained
The best of the flock's leadership and honor

42. When we see the pillar of the faith riding it
No riders behind it can match the people

43. So say to one who hopes to catch up with them
Wait, for they have reached the heights and did not contend

44. If your father could see today, his eye would be amazed
The roots from what the branches produced

45. He gave up efforts, so he trained his efforts
Proceeding on the path of glory, not stopping

46. Horses may outstrip their pursuers, even if
Many bolt on the day of racing and vying