1. Do you not see lightning, what is it doing
With a teardrop the long separation has dried up

2. God has quenched it for evil while its flowing is goodness
It has no power over the clouds or drought

3. And from God’s mercy which I hope for
And await nearness to the shrine though they were unkind

4. If we gather after separation, we have no
Reproach or anger at the deeds of fate

5. Do you see what has been seen from companions
Whose judgment of me discards truth, they are quick to judge

6. They spread what I chided them for in my youth
When I was wise and anger was kindled

7. Verily it is the mother of wonders, so be patient
Even if you have not met its like before

8. When they see good, they refuse and carry
Evil back to their homes or scatter it if they see it

9. Verily my forbearance is vast if you reform
With my forbearance while some of it is hunger and trial

10. So do not increase thorns that prick in your branches
Lest breaking and splitting increase from me among you

11. For your nearness, while you have rebelled
There is no pact or vow on the sword-day of turmoil

12. No womb but that you have estranged it
Tearing it like shredded scrolls

13. Traces of affection between us will be erased
While we are cousins, like the comb disjoined

14. You rejected my hand, so its reins are freed
To others when it is pulled to tie

15. I was only a giver from God’s hand
Verily withholding and releasing are in His grip

16. Is there among you reproach so a benefactor returns
With the eye of approval and pardon, its reception a gift?

17. Otherwise, I will remove the matter from me and you
And be as if I have no tribe among you

18. Or is there in this for you anything but a gasp
That ascends in the chests and descends

19. Otherwise only threats, his troops untroubled,
And snakes in their lurking-places, coiled

20. So whoever is sick, I am his doctor
Whoever insane, I have a remedy for him

21. You hid when fortune smiles then does not
So do not mention me by name when distress grips it

22. When the rings of fate close in around you
And its right hand fans your hide, a gift

23. And at the height of fortune, its decline is feared
Like the drowned man has rain then drought

24. Did the branch of glory elevate me and I climbed it
While the belly of lowland held you back?

25. You resent the great ordinance of God
It will go on with whatever increases confusion

26. O you who are rightfully beyond words to a listener
And essence of wisdom no scattered bits can pick up