XXXV: That friend, who is false and faithless, is…

That friend, who is false and faithless, is no friend at all!
The affair, which hath not stability, is no matter at all!

Though laying down one's head is difficult, for thee and for me;
Yet 'tis an easy matter in love, and difficult by no means.

Care and solicitude awaken a man from his slumbers;
And he who hath no anxiety, though awake, is fast asleep.

To the lover, if there is aught in life, 'tis the society of his beloved--
The life of separation cannot be reckoned as existence.

It increaseth and groweth less, in the twinkling of the eye--
Reliance on the revolutions of fortune is no reliance whatever.

If one be the father of a hundred sons, what shall he do with them?
The ignorant, foolish son, is not the son of his father.

Unto their lovers, the beloved ones ever manifest their caprices;
But the beloved of Rahman causeth him no disquietude.