1. A gazelle withholding from meeting me has no patience
I have a flying heart, if only it could fly to you, it would have flown

2. You are still in my memory, I do not forget you night or day
Absent yet present, within my heart you have a home

3. So how can you deprive your lover of your sweet nearness
Enough of distance, enough of your reproach

4. My heart loves you, fear your Lord
No blossoming Tulip has sung of your beauty and charm

5. Or kindled raging fires of passion in the heart
O guide of the caravans, tighten the camel litters

6. I have a dear absent one, I cannot endure being apart from him
Forgive my errors, he is my closest confidant

7. Of splendid beauty, his saliva mixed with sugar
Adorned with pearls, his cheek a rose

8. His soft neck finer than beryl
Captivating all eyes, have mercy on a lover inflamed

9. Complaining yet thanking, sacrificing to meet you