1. My heart whispers to me of your gentle touch
Perhaps your favor will steal me away tonight

2. Take me so I can join my beloved
While my friend who spurned him cannot catch up to me

3. And even if he wanted to catch up to me, I'd outrun him
But my tears will outpace me

4. O you who takes my heart freely and openly
On the condition that after my heart you take my body

5. You have sinned in taking just one thing, so if
You wish to be rewarded, take two things together

6. O paradise of immortality, you have immortalized yourself in my eternity
And the tradition of the full moon, my love for you is my tradition

7. And an enchanting sword whose watcher is tempted by it
For this is how it was ordained, the tempting of swords with enchantment

8. Nothing is more wondrous to all people
Than my secret passion or your public beauty

9. And a branch is known by where it sprouts from
For we have seen the garden through its branch

10. I adorned my hearing with the words you uttered
Your words still ring in my ears like earrings

11. The heavens yearn and make its stars shine
Longingly for its people or longingly for homeland

12. It says my beauty is jealous as it competes with it
Do you not know that beauty loves me?

13. By Allah, get up and let us sneak out laughing lightly
And leave the weeping gazelle in the shelters

14. And let our communion be at night, and never
Quenched by the tears of languid eyelids

15. I asked one whose aloofness scorned me
So look at the humiliation of the poor and pride of the rich

16. How often he scorns while my devil debases me
And how often he does wrong while my Sultan is Abu Al-Hassan

17. One whom injustice is not seen in the days of his rule
Or good is not seen flowing in it like ships

18. The bestower of thousands after thousands safely
Free of blame, free of favors

19. Look at him when his fingers give generously
And look at the shyness on the face of the flirtatious beauty

20. The elder of youthfulness, observant with his wisdom
Of consequences, knowing and prudent

21. Sacred of mind, free from fault and delusion
Pure of conscience, free from fault and vileness

22. In beauty and in goodness there are accounts of his conduct
Attributed to Eden, not to Aden

23. No praise except about him and his love
Lauded, and no eulogy except extolling his supremacy

24. A palace was built for him in the tumultuous sea
Its foundation laid, and built on the waves of swords

25. His noble character refuses to abandon
Gentleness when clasping or harshness when taking a stand

26. One who seldom finds courage has pride in armor
While for some it is like a shroud

27. How many instances you satisfied God with
Alongside the Prophet by destroying idols

28. You sheathed your sword but in their hearts
Your sheathed sword remained causing sorrow

29. They differed about you, so bodies weep
From staying while souls are in agony

30. O best of creations, a saying that does not
Suggest a conjecture of speech or speech of conjectures

31. I left your land, O my agony and oh my sorrow
And your palace, O my fervor and O my grief

32. If I stayed in the state that my life was in
My state would be as my life was delighted in it

33. You adorned my neck with jewelry crafted from favors
How excellent is the neck in jewelry of favors

34. When I called out from afar for his gifts
The bestowal came happy and the giving blithe

35. Benevolence drew near until it became intimate
With my palm, now settling from my palm into my intimacy

36. There is no pride but in an army in which his kinship
Has exalted pride over Qais and Yemen

37. You sheathed your sword but in their hearts
Your sheathed sword remained in a sheath of sorrow

38. In how many instances did you satisfy God with
Alongside the Prophet by destroying idols

39. You put away your sword yet in their hearts
Your sheathed sword remained causing sorrow