1. O guide of the caravan, do not hasten the camel,
For longing itself drives the slow camel.

2. Let it ride the saddened one, and tomorrow
After it, the sands will be a bed and a wrap.

3. Do not give it more than its ability, leave it be
Now it wanders between the valleys plummeting.

4. For in its ribs to the land of ruin
Is an illness that rumbles like blue eyes.

5. It has malicious determination, throwing its dishevelled hair
Over it like arrows with intended targets.

6. Their nightingales drank from the cup of the Pleiades, so they leaned
In ecstasy like none have made the Babylonians lean.

7. They spread the name of their visitors and listened closely
So it brought back the robe of virtue folded up.

8. And they sang of it, so it made its secret wealth
Needless of any clear proof, releasing its tied reins.

9. It is enough for it to endure poverty in verse
Tomorrow, seeing the dwellings will be a pasture.

10. And a vast meadow, shaded shade
And moist plants and plentiful water.

11. Then when my caravan reaches
Its furthest destination, they softened.

12. Then they softened to the brilliant sanctuary
That He made an exalted, towering place.

13. And they left it with dispraise, for it pleased the people
And they fulfilled it with the satisfactory place.

14. A sanctuary that enveloped that guiding Prophet
The bearer of good news, the cleanser, the Hashimite

15. Where the descents of revelation upon him were received
Openly, and the passage of his years, gone.

16. A sanctuary where Gabriel brought him God's revelation
Morning and evening.

17. A sanctuary where the highest of creations dwelled
With towering nobility and ancestry most pure.

18. God's mercy upon people in existence
Guided them with it to the straight path.

19. So he who saw him as innocent responded
And turned to Him who judges.

20. Thus tomorrow, he who obeyed and came to Him
Will be content with his Lord, pleasing.

21. And he who disobeyed Him plummets
Into the heat of Hell, and they were most deserving of it.

22. No benefit did the devotion of Abee Lahab bring
Anything, and his hands perished, disobedient.

23. But the care of the Creator benefited
The Romans, the Persians and the Ethiopians.

24. The owner of miracles resembles his brother
To the beholder, like a brilliant star.

25. The seal of the messengers was Adam, clay
In the beginning of his creation, and was a prophet.

26. God endowed him with perfection, so humanity shone
Aloof, handed and most generous.

27. And He chose him over all of creation and gave him
A book made pure, in Arabic.

28. It is enough for him, the loftiness of his ascent to the Farthest
And from it, the Sky's Mother climbed high.

29. And enough for him, the comprehensiveness of his call to creation
Evident, distinguished in miracles.

30. And gains were made legitimate for him, and God
Assumed for him in them an equal distribution.

31. And the earth and soil became a mosque for him
Purified, if resolved and loyal.

32. And granted him, along with the banner, the station of the mosque
In his mission, and a pond from which to drink.

33. And comprehensive intercession for whom he did not make
Of the Muslims, a single wretched being.

34. I wish I knew, is there for me a return to Him
So I meet Him, elating my longing heart?

35. And perhaps I shed the garb of the soul's passions
And meet my God stripped bare.

36. And that fate awakened him, the hand of accord
Had I not turned away from His sanctuary.

37. And I call my eyes, enjoy the nearness
Of a home from which I have been long absent.

38. This is a blessing that came to you when
You were poor for it, and so you became rich.

39. And it comforted the soul which the days
Made die at long last an easy death.

40. This is my purpose - so if I die beforehand
Then how many ardently in love have met their fate.

41. So upon him be peace for as long as the dawn
Stirs the wings of night with a burning wick.

42. And may God's prayers flow upon him
As long as the pliant rod bends gently and willingly.