1. The slenderness of the branch is anger at your bending it,
And the sum of estrangement is part of your plucking it.

2. I have not ceased, and the wonders of love do not fade away,
To die in you, and live from the harvest in you.

3. So whoever leaves you takes his share of guidance,
But who can make you leave?

4. And I, when lovers are weary of passion,
Have an estrangement that seeks you, or disdain that brings me near you.

5. And my heart wanted solace, so I said:
Where is that which would console you, O my heart, from it?

6. And your harm from the sickness of passion is not
Save his pleasure. Oh longing for the one who harms you!

7. How many reproachers in you I have kissed their smiles
When your name flowed in them as they named you.

8. My tears flowed though they said crying is joy,
So I envy none but the eye that cries for you.

9. I hide while you are famous,
So grief and beauty hide me and display you.

10. The stars said to you in truth:
How foolish is the moon when it tries to depict you!

11. O moon, if you complain of harm from darkness
Of going astray, then my full moon guides you.

12. And if you want the meanings of beauty affirmed
Then write - the face of the heart's beloved dictates them to you.

13. Come, so hear the discourses of passion for him
For his wishes are only in my wishes for you.

14. I ask God's forgiveness! I have forgotten all
Except promises to you lost in my forgetfulness of you.

15. The veil of the night of union covered us
Until I smiled and the veil was torn.

16. Silent for lightning, O flashing of his smile,
The night of perfection threw lightning, complaining of you.

17. The days of your company, from their cheerfulness,
Were stars to beholders in your nights.

18. O you who moved from the house and memories bring you closer!
If you moved away, memories will bring you near.

19. Bring your heart near to my heart in an embrace -
Perhaps the softness of that heart will pass over to you.

20. You have possessed my heart, so tell me how to divert it,
And you have enthralled my soul, so tell me how to ransom it.

21. Leave off owning me and freeing me - I am a man
Who for the virtuous Ali bin Abi Talib has become enslaved.

22. Time has possessed my heart, so I said:
O time, it brings me low and brings you low.

23. One who utters virtue does not display it boastfully,
And the virtuous does not conceal his words stealthily.

24. I seek refuge for your glory from neglect without cause
Which rules that my appearance makes your rising light hidden.

25. Do not come to him, and stay, O you who seek him, you will find
His bounty comes to you and the world comes to you.

26. If you are straitened, then it will expand it,
Or if you were dead, then by grace he will give you life.

27. Time said to those who come with nothing but their hands:
What would make you rich but one who can enrich you?

28. He restored kingdoms to freemen, and how much
Of his making returned as freemen, owned kingdoms.

29. Those virtues, certainty did not leave in the soul
Any doubt, nor in the heart any skepticism of them.

30. When I exult in them, the envious one says:
I ask God's forgiveness but for my exultation in you!

31. O you who has mastered giving to excess -
I see you will give the highest meanings.

32. We find sublime meanings in you shining,
And we derive meanings from your meanings.

33. Generosity does not sprout but in your soil, just as
Poverty is not harvested but in your fields.

34. He who envies your stature out of his meanness
Wants your downfall - but how, when, for what in you?

35. When I saw the efforts beyond you were futile,
I excused those who were incapable of your efforts.

36. I have come to you, O cloudburst of the land, thirstily,
As it went away in my condition, your returning to me.

37. You give your enemies until I have nearly, from anger,
Said: give me, and give me some of your enemies!

38. I seek refuge for your glory from my neglect without cause -
And how can the like of me be neglected by you?

39. And for me you are a master of whom I say:
You are enough for me, and it's enough that I am your loyal one.

40. So my survival is only from your granting,
And my life only from your hands.

41. And I have praised because I am praiseworthy through you,
And I have hoped because I spend the night hoping for you.

42. So may God laugh at whoever opposes you joyfully
With righteousness, and disgrace the status of those who oppose you.