1. The meadow of love is a shaded pasture
In the heart where cares graze

2. What joy did I reap from it
That was not followed by sorrows

3. No breeze blew for union
Without poisonous separation

4. If love comes your way, beware
For it is your chronic malady

5. Time changes nothing
How can what you desire last?

6. Lord of gentle charm, he turned
With a wholesome chest to love

7. I do not doubt I clung to him
As bliss sheltered me with him

8. Fickle time for misery
With all that saddened me, a leader

9. He dwelt constant in disdain
With me, a lasting companion

10. He asked about the anguish of my heart
Though he knew well its causes

11. Awake to the loss of my troth
Yet prone am I to betrayal

12. Intimate he was, but he became
For me intimate in estrangement’s core

13. I turned from him to affection
Lasting though pleasure fades

14. Secure in loyalty, enduring
Treading the path of acceptance, unwavering

15. Of the generous Majid al-Jawad Areehe
Of the lineage of his noble fathers

16. In battle they are black lions
In the thick of it, white eagles

17. In guidance and bounty, a refuge
They are stars and they are clouds

18. Kings bowed to their loftiness
The stars bowed to its loftiness

19. Men quailed at their might
While misery shrouded them

20. I have, from Persia's lions, a lofty peak
With inviolable sanctuary

21. I clung to it with my Master's rope
I worry for the likes of it

22. It roams free with bounty and gifts
As I roam free with its nobleness

23. Fruitful with merit and great deeds
While others lack them

24. Its companion, a sword or book
One a beloved, one a boon friend

25. In its heart learning has a place
And discourse with it is significant

26. Who extols merit in its people
Shows that he is magnificent

27. Take her as a bride when she appears
Radiant to her beauty, O forbearing one

28. The words are pearls of meaning
Molded by thought and science

29. Speaking of perfume, she has diffusion
From which the breeze is fragrant