1. Let me be, let me be, you have prolonged my torment
And toughened my skin with the heat of sufferings

2. Let me die grieved, anxious and sorrowful
Oh, my heart, who is like me in distress?

3. Let me be with my grief, give up on me
I'm certain I will not last, by God's will

4. After you, I have found love
To have ruined my strength and youth

5. I'm torn by a longing, that if appeased
Would calm, and if ignored, would blow away

6. May God water the ruins in the precincts of love
Though they have revealed to people my inner secrets

7. My dwellings, if my funeral passed by them
The echo would say: O bearers, bring me down here

8. So I bear witness, for whoever believes in the Merciful
And hopes in God, that he prays for me

9. God has tested people who say: We have found
Distance from loved ones a cure for passion in youth

10. Why then has longing and love torn my heart
And the heat of separation ripened my innermost being?

11. Oh, if only my eyes had seen those you saw
Maybe I'd find some rest from my infatuation

12. Alas, I cannot rest from grief and passion
My shirt is threadbare from the heat of separation

13. I told the breeze: Convey my greeting
To her, and what has befallen me, my condition

14. I thank it, for I yearn for that meeting
If only I knew, would there be a reunion?

15. My tormentor, without you I'd not be sleepless
Spending the night with red, weeping eyes

16. My tormentor, my passion has gone on too long
Your love has cured me - how little people console me!

17. My tormentor, you led me to the valley of rejection
You disappointed me and disregarded our union

18. My friend, come, delight me in my weeping
For my soul is exhausted and most troubled

19. My friend, I have stayed up while you slept
In the flashes of lightning from the Yemen - come justify me

20. My friend, if I were well and you two were sick
I would not do to you what you have done to me

21. My friend, make my bed for me and lift
My pillow - maybe sleep will take away my distress

22. My friend, my time has come - seek for me
Shroud and coffin and pray forgiveness for me

23. And if I die from lovesickness, convey
To the sun-like beauty my greetings