1. I have nothing of him but "no"
Whenever I ask more, he grows aloof

2. He has the right to be aloof
By my father, he is a crescent

3. That has made the sun a crescent
A gazelle, we have never seen

4. Eyes like his, a gazelle
Dressed the moon in pallor

5. And clothed the branch in lean
Set up excuse as a snare

6. Under it the love as prey
With him I have languished and raved

7. With him I have hunted and joined
With glances of delight

8. And with melting eyelids
The wind sports on my cheek

9. Right and left
They are the shadow's extent

10. They are the shadow's transit
In him, in my misery

11. I enjoy the world's comfort
And if I die frustrated

12. How long I have lived joined
How often my night has shortened

13. In bliss lasting from him
And we embraced hearts

14. Burning them is fire's feeding
And we mingled tears

15. Their dripping the soil's flooding
Passion took unlawfully

16. And avoided the lawful
My cheeks' fire cooked it

17. With gleaming light
O you who restores union

18. A guide or weary
You are like the sun but your epoch is the noon of decay

19. Pass me amidst your folds
As I have become shreds

20. Or bring me with your eyes
As I have become a specter

21. Or I have let myself go
And cut the bonds

22. With greying that has spread
Till it has covered the head with inflammation

23. So when the cupbearer says “haha”, I say “no no”
An old man acting coy

24. Is like rubbish wriggling
Greying has let me down but

25. With Ali I rise
With him I prevail over fate

26. When fate acts prolonged
With him I pardon fate

27. When fate acts curtailed
With him I spend on others

28. When the rain pours continuously
Through him I borrow riches

29. When riches amass
A king who revived bestowal

30. As he had destroyed armaments
He established Islam but

31. After having dispelled misguidance
And he truly supported God's cause

32. With war and combat
He protected religion from enemies

33. And sufficed people fighting
He has a thousand domains

34. Where no domain is found
Warfare wearied but

35. It did not fatigue him
Residence ended but

36. He never intended to move
His war with enemies

37. Was never mere wrangling
But he had victory over them

38. Every prolonged day
They had come as mountains

39. With him they returned as sands
Through him they became women

40. When they had been men
He routed the Indian's load

41. And confined the Byzantine
His is the unsheathing of striking

42. And his is the stab of improvising
He possessed fate tyrannically

43. With highest feats not trickery
We saw fate in his

44. Grasp wearing the crown of conceit
You made fate your abode

45. And people your dependents
And religion became protected

46. Through you and riches debased
You gave people justice abundantly

47. Making fate upright
How often you took a stand

48. That silenced people's speech
Who rises in your lofty qualities

49. Is unlike those who do not rise