1. They built it upon those vanished moons
And formed it from the light of smiling horizons

2. And since they folded your youth within it, it has not ceased
To display a touch of your youth upon it

3. The builder built it for you, and passion
Did not delay to lead it until it lay by your side

4. Ask it, has his heart become a tomb now
And is your tomb in obscurity, or other than that?

5. And are those ornaments fantasies of his soul
And is that darkness, or the concerns of kingdoms?

6. You placed at its right a heart, but it found
Nothing but its rule, a jewel for your left

7. Neither what Khosrow built, nor Ja'far's palace
Nor Ghumdan's palace, nor Baram's

8. As if hearts burnt with passion for you
Were melted by the goldsmith among ingots

9. As if the ornaments resembling flowers
Were bouquets whose chalices were your falling tears

10. As if the tomb's darkness in its flashes
Were the thrills of the lovesick between one state and your state

11. As if your teeth in their pearls were an intention
Echoing in a pure, blessed heart

12. As if I see those minarets as hands
Signaling to the cosmos that you are there

13. Marvels that preoccupied the preoccupied, and there was no preoccupied one
To rival it through those paths

14. And they brought majesty and piety upon my heart
So I became distinguished among people, and an ascetic

15. And my life became for the heart window lattices
So I let loose my steed galloping with the lattices