1. My beloved friend, my companion
Leave off your excessive blame

2. Your love dwells in my heart
Even if your songs distract me from you

3. Our condition is goodwill and affection
I am yours and you are mine

4. Cut short and cease your stubbornness
For I have made your love my religion and art

5. I have a state like no other state
With the affection you have pledged

6. And if your testing of me grows long
And you extend the rope of separation

7. Then if boredom appears in me
I will not attain my wish

8. And if you accuse me, O my happiness
Of what you desire, then test me

9. Wondrous, O my teaser, wondrous
What of my passion has troubled you?

10. Can you prescribe for me a doctor
To treat my lovesickness and my malady?

11. For there is no love like my love
That equals or compares to it

12. And I swear by the Lord of created beings
There is nothing like it, so leave me be