1. The ignorance and tyranny I once possessed
And the piety and faith that later progressed

2. My kingdom rejoiced after the soul's grief
And my devil grieved after the soul's relief

3. The scholar is no nobler after his knowledge
Nor the ascetic greater after his abandon.

4. I forgot a miserly companion who won't remember me
With the mention of a Kind Lord who won't forget me

5. And I feared disobeying One who if He willed could destroy me
And I chose obeying One who if He willed could honor me

6. I shunned a world called base for its lowness
Else it has no despised aspect for the lowly

7. I laughed in it though I had cried over it
Ignorance made me laugh, wisdom made me cry

8. I attained what none attained in times
Of attainment or dwellings with dwellings

9. Veiled with honor no hand contends against my hand
Or rules over my rule and station

10. Between two mighty ones of glory and nobility
And two lofty ones of worth and stature

11. I am clothed and robed in garbs of bounty after
Dragging the trains of my robes in wilderness

12. Blessed amidinstant gardens and whatever virgins and youths I desire
And how many a beauty did captivate me without war

13. And tempted the human weakness in my eye
And how oft the sun of day with it

14. Lay down to rest and the stars of night grew intoxicated
I tire and weary of embraces and kisses

15. And find rest in quiescence and delight
Then I refrain though if my self-respect

16. Did not forbid me grayness would forbid me.
Grayness has turned the locks of my heart gray

17. As the two new crescents have worn my fresh white temples
Seek not my love, O twenty-year maid

18. For thirty has toppled a third of my pillars
Oh, my abundant sorrows and griefs

19. And little supporters and aiders I have
Ask the days about me, ask none but them

20. And ask not of my anxiety and sorrows
If I weep then shun my company

21. And beware the flood of my streaming eyes
As for my tears, fear and vigilance

22. They are from my sins, tyranny and disobedience
Worry, tears, fear and begging hands

23. These are disputants, and what disputants!
To you my eyes, O world, to you my separation

24. In your union the hater delights like lovers
In the loneliness of the grave and worms dwelling in it

25. Are occupation for my soul from my homes and gardens
I speak of my homes and neighbors in self-deceit

26. For the grave is my home and the dead are my neighbors
I will widen the grave with righteous deeds, repair it

27. And wear my asceticism before my shroud
I responded to the call of God when He called

28. And said: Here I am! out of yearning and ecstasy
If I am rightly guided while others stray in blindness

29. I am seeing amid the blind out of ignorance
And if I leave the world and its pleasures willingly

30. What a profitable loss after ruin!
Why should I grieve over the world and its pleasures

31. When I gained the Everlasting in place of the vanishing?