1. If you offer him a cup to cheer up a depressed man,
You will not hear from him, "Enough, I'm no longer depressed!"

2. It only leads him to don the shirt of darkness,
Since you came to him with lies instead of truth.

3. It does not settle when the water disturbs it,
As if my heart had rushed into confusion before it.

4. Its mixer is its diver, the cup is its sea,
The sea is of gold and the pearls are of loved ones.

5. So toast from the lowly a spark where you toast it,
A shower sprinkles sparks that flew from the flames.

6. Wine by the hands of thick-lipped cupbearers was harvested,
Like the date picker who harvests from the fronds.

7. The stars of darkness showed from above the dawn’s sun,
The cloud of loved ones, it is the daughter of clouds.

8. That old woman, may God preserve her, she is a sorceress,
She does not enchant the old man unless he returns a boy.

9. So wine was the sword of the mixer that killed her,
And to kill a sorceress is the best offering.

10. I seek refuge in God, our Master and His State,
Not from the eyes of people, but the eyes of grey hair.

11. And these are the excuses, do not cling to its weakness,
For sometimes it resorts to speaking lies.

12. Surely the admission of sin by the young man is quicker in
Extinguishing what the chapter of anger has ignited.

13. Pardoning is generosity, a generosity that has no cause,
More fortunate and honorable than generosity for a cause.

14. The generous are surely above pardoning with an excuse,
For it is of their manners, generosity without request.

15. In humiliation, in prison, you left behind your lover,
After immortalizing you with praise in books.

16. This is wondrous talk that does not please me,
So may the most high bring an end to the wonder.

17. I wish the grace of fortune could be earned,
Then I would earn it like merit and propriety.