1. Morality died in our time, so let your loyalty weep long
And build with the patience you made a home of weeping loyalty

2. We made tears pouring and halting despicable
And assumed they were like vapor

3. And grant sleep to every one crying out
"Who will lend the worries away, even for a fee?"

4. My eyes are not yours, experiencing any burden
Of my troubles, no.

5. Time cast me with sorrows that silenced
the tongues of all orators about it

6. And afflicted me with what I was consoled by
For my steadfastness to it and beauty of my consolation

7. It made the singing appear to my hearing as wailing
And wailing appear to me like singing

8. It showed me my elegant condition has clearly declined
In my eyes of its radiance

9. And destined for me by the length of my life my sobbing
Since it destined the loss of my hopes for me

10. The steeds of worries settled in my heart
Having no shame for staying overlong

11. Then they refused to leave my abode
And my courtyard, save after my demise

12. They came upon a spring pouring from the eye
And a fire kindling in the entrails

13. Thousands, if they left it, its eyelid
Would water the ground with bloody rain

14. And if it complains of the absence of joy
Then what might it say of blessings!

15. What excuse is there for our time, when it stained me
With an affliction that pained my thoughts

16. And showed me tribulation that befell me from it
That if it slipped away, would remove my tribulation

17. She who was my existence and my existence her
And she from whose affections were my affections

18. I had become certain, since she was a source for me
That I was prolific in excelling talents

19. One is excused by people when she is a mother to him
If he transgresses against fathers

20. They see right that children are attributed
Not to men, but to women

21. She who presented for her good deeds
Requiring the planting of hope's seeds

22. She wearied the scribe of the right hand, so how much
He neglected to record, exhausted of strength

23. Spending a lifetime acquiring rewards
For an outcome, not seeking glory's spread

24. She saw the buyer of excellence as cheap
Even if it were at the greatest prices

25. She left behind conversations that would suffice one
From publishing volumes of song

26. With piety and intelligence in decency
And generosity along with munificence

27. How often I wished nearing of death for a time
Yearning for concealment and hiding

28. She wanted the veil of earth - would that I knew
Who called the earth to such richness!

29. My knowledge of the excellence it held
Concluded for me spreading the excuse of destiny

30. Except I cannot dismiss the emotion
Nor resign from my confusion

31. If composure refused the heart
It declined excellence upon my refusal

32. When the steeds of my tears slowed
My moan urged them on, importunate

33. Would that they had with death restored my life
When I did not restore it with any of my remainder

34. I had hoped to spend my wealth upon her
Yet my tears for her became like redemption

35. O she within my heart! My soul yearns
For you, O long sorrow and trouble of mine

36. Would that I knew if you know, my daughter
Among all people is scant of quenching

37. Moaning and crying constantly, diseased and grieved
And a sick sense of justice, evil tidings

38. A heart not quieted from it by frowning or smiling
Distracted by grave concerns, devoid of joy

39. Ever pouring bloody tears remembering a pure
Grace though I summoned the Pleiades in my elegy

40. So among the dead he is truly counted
And metaphorically reckoned among the living

41. Patience swore an oath to the heart
That there is no meeting until the meeting

42. So I believed that what had rusted in the breast
What of it remained from burnishing

43. I was tormented between ample despair
And narrow hope of hopes

44. My evenings are my mornings
And my mornings are my darkened evenings

45. My friend for his abandonment is as my enemy
And my enemy has become of my friends

46. All who are devoid of bliss know
The inevitable meeting with misery

47. I was in a garden and expelled from it
As the Giver reclaimed His gift

48. Do you see me having obeyed Satan
In the eating with Adam and Eve?

49. Nothing but silence and unwilling patience
In matters that exhausted the minds of sages

50. My anger at fate is ignorance
It is like me, struck by calamities

51. Time has afflicted it since her loss
With little splendor or illumination

52. You are to me more majestic than any composition
Even if I gathered the Pleiades in my elegy

53. In my conscience is what my poetry cannot expose
No, even if I were the most eloquent poet

54. What excuse for leaving myself when my eyes
Oh how ugly my harshness and aloofness!

55. If I call your grave in yearning
Then by my right do not disappoint my call

56. Does the grave realize what it contains
And hides of that brilliance and radiance?

57. For so long the dazzling light appeared from it
And I saw only frowning in my frowns

58. So keep safe O tomb the full moon
For whom you became as if the sky

59. And be gentle with her, for you bestow
A complete blessing to the Most High

60. To me, for what you held of purity
You match a mosque in Quba

61. For you are my pilgrimage, estrangement
And for she in you are my praise, eulogy and prayers

62. And greetings from me, for Him is hostility with hostility
Yet from Him is seen the killing of the arrogant

63. Remember me on the Day of Resurrection, O mother
Lest I be counted among the wretched

64. Intercede for me, for my Garden is beneath your feet
Without doubt or controversy

65. Soon, undoubtedly, will come to you about me
With my arrival to you the delegation of delight

66. May Allah hasten my comfort from my life
It is in time my greatest affliction

67. If life is like malady
Then death is as remedy