1. If only He who created the dark eyes
Had created the throbbing hearts as iron

2. Were it not for their glances and magic
No lover would have loved, not even an idol

3. Protect your heart from the arrows of her glances
Or die as love decrees you a martyr

4. If you saw beauty and were not tempted
You would be a man of coarse nature, numb

5. And if with youth, you sought pleasure
You would seek the unattainable

6. Oh my heart, it lies next to me
And I think it is far from my burial site

7. Inciting longing for her cheeks
One dislikes living lonely

8. God exonerated it with ribs for protection
And its misfortune made the ribs fetters

9. So when the lightning of wishes flashed for him
His passions raged at him like thunder

10. I adorned it with patience but when it could not endure
I adorned it with aiming and climbing

11. If I could protect it from love’s tyranny
And if one could resist love’s tyranny, praiseworthy

12. It was a glance that passed by and turned
My heart into fire and made it firewood

13. And love is a voice, it is the wail of a mourner
At times, and at others it is a song

14. It makes the twittering birds eloquent
But when it withdraws, it silences the warbler

15. Why do I task my love to conceal sorrow?
If the wound's breach lasts long, it becomes malignant

16. And my soul delights in being wretched
And my heart delights in being steadfast

17. If you know what love is, then cure me
Or else refrain from rebuke and denial

18. O Hind, hopes have exhausted my patience
And I am exhausted, fearing no further calamity

19. What is this whiteness that I see
In my beard, but the dark nights?

20. I have not grown old with age
But that which I burdened myself with has bent my back

21. This is what has worn out my youth and dispelled it
In creation, and furrowed my brow in folds

22. You taught my eyes to wipe their tears stingily
You taught the stingy man generosity!

23. And you prevented my heart from settling
And it can be cold to calamities

24. You seduced me, and protected my eyelid from closing
With sorrows, prostration cannot be endured

25. Do not wonder that the planets are compliant to me
I am the one who taught them compliance

26. I heard her describe the charms of youth
And it curled up as if the barefoot had stepped on thorns

27. Stumbling in the darkness as if
The darkness had turned ashen and black

28. And that she knew your place in the earth
So its flowers have garlanded you

29. You who make people forget their worries
And the most eloquent orator his usual eloquence

30. I have never sensed your beauty but it shook me
And I wished beauty was granted eternity

31. And when I mention you, the mention of you shakes my ribs
With longing as the breeze shook the wet clothes

32. I reckoned the melted pearls were my tears
If only the tears of lovers were molten lead

33. And I fancied the fluttering of the boughs were ribs
And their ripe fruit, cherries

34. And I see your image with every glance of the eye
And it amazes me that I see it renewed

35. And when I hear a tale of a lover
I fancy myself as the intended man

36. Awake and fancying that I am asleep
O Hind, bewilderment has become inertia

37. And keeping aloof from love can be for me
But the lover was created affectionate