1. I saw your glance on the day of parting as it inclined,
So my tears became lips and the kohl of my eyelids was erased.

2. So stop blaming me when I kiss it,
For I did not doubt that I had kissed a mouth.

3. If he knew along with my knowledge his harshness,
The heart would not have suffered from the sting of blame.

4. He glanced at me, so the reproachers cried "He glanced!"
But I do not say "He glanced," rather I say "He shot."

5. He shot me and made me deaf, and if he had not shot love,
Do you not see my leanness in his love, indeed?

6. And he kept my eyelids from the insomnia of concerns,
Yet I did not see the gazelle attributed to him as forbidden.

7. And he turned away the bird of my heart the day he bid me farewell.
O idol of beauty, you made it a sanctuary for him.

8. O idol whose beauty's mark remained a pebble in it,
How much do I circumambulate it and how much do I touch it reverently!

9. Since he saw my body kindled by the fire of passion,
The rays were seen glowing on his cheeks.

10. And the cup of a mouth was healed by its softness,
So its dimples appeared arranged within it.

11. O heart-breaker, why did you name yourself heart-breaker when you broke it,
And its army you captured for the souls as booty?

12. Why did you tempt the souls as a plunderer,
If this was not due to a crime, then no crime.

13. Your master surpassed the rulers of the earth altogether,
For he became the prince for whom they became servants.

14. I say as the wind raised its forelocks:
You became among them a prince; rather, for them a banner.

15. I complained of your apparition during its visitation,
For the likes of me cannot grow fat on pus.

16. Nor do I ask him for aid ever,
For the forbearing does not ask forbearance rudely.

17. Rather, I recall an old pact from you,
And perhaps forgot is the pact made long ago.

18. My love for you increased manifold
And often the small thing became great.

19. I do not deny suspicion or blame,
Whoever knows love does not deny suspicions.

20. Nor do I follow my love with boredom, as
The son of Ali does not regret his righteousness.

21. That most glorious one whose abodes
Are above the clouds and whose generosity reached its utmost,

22. The richest, most content, who gave to every beggar asking him,
And brought about generosity until he eliminated nothingness.

23. The sea fell short of him, so it remains depressed,
Do you not see it clapping its waves in tumult?

24. The clouds poured down when they competed with him crying,
Do you not see the tears pouring from their eyelids joined together?

25. If the son of Abi Sulma saw his gifts,
He would see the hump of an old camel like his name indicates.

26. If he lent some of his traits to Shimam,
He would become in his burrow forbearant instead of hasty.

27. And since I saw his spearhead penetrating,
I saw the spear give news of it decisively.

28. When the sublime pen rides his fingers,
It eclipses the Pleiades and illuminates the darkness and glooms.

29. God ordained good for him since he gave him a pen,
With which he brings about the decree and judgment.

30. The pillar-like right hand which encompassed a pen,
And it is the pillar of a kingdom it inscribed.

31. It shows you the Pleiades in the horizon blossoming,
And the meadow's flowers can be seen through it smiling.

32. It registers victory through its regiments,
And we have heard no other numbering except his numbering.

33. Its lines and their meanings which hid
Are the veils, and behind them are the cranes.

34. They coquettishly swayed though virgins, and no wonder,
For coquetry among its virgins is blameworthy.

35. Pride of an era which Abd al-Rahim became through it,
Issuing rulings and judgments with wisdom and judgment.

36. The highest of mankind whom they are inferior to in lineage and glory,
And the most magnanimous person whenever tired.

37. The most flowing of people in truth in his leadership,
And the earliest of people in deserving it.

38. Your Lord clothed you in light from His majesty,
Which meets the envious and clothes the onlookers in blindness.

39. In the breast the moon gleams when it rose high,
And the rain when it inclined, and the sea when it surged.

40. He smiles shyly and is too shy for his awe,
So he cannot be addressed reverently when he smiles.

41. Since I held to a rope from His care,
I reconciled my fate so I did not increase for it any blame.

42. And when my gaze met the good fortune of its rising,
I saw my gaze in the horizon of highness as a star.

43. The feet of the powerful used to serve me,
So I became one who sees the powers serving me.

44. O excellent sincere friend whose speech
I comprehend, and the purpose is understood.

45. You have restored for the slave when you returned to him
A spirit and destroyed for him enemies utterly.

46. You left for me envious enemies in my infirmity,
And how they wished for me maladies and sickness!

47. So I said, I have nothing to do with them, then You said to them:
Do not wish safety, for this slave is safe.

48. A favor from You raised my value among them,
And a blessing from You raised it above them to the highest point.

49. Grant me some words to praise you with them, stingily,
For You have destroyed me, O Most Generous!

50. My gratitude for Your blessings is a debt I owe,
And ingratitude with me is to thank for the blessings.