1. Who will cry for me before the day of loss with soft tears
Was it just playfulness that kept me up at night from that blood

2. Or was it sincere sadness, O intimate friend
We cried as you cried, yet you did not see

3. Nor were you affected by my hot tears
My crying was not meaningless vanity

4. Nor was the face of our love suspicious
O brother of beauty and kindness, for God's sake

5. Be gentle with your grieving eyelid
Restrain your eye from its crying, for in it is peril

6. Is there in it the loyalty of eyes' religion?
The night of Thursday was beautiful and pleasant

7. It suffices me from the straitened times
The foam of distance from the bosom flowed

8. And your concealed love manifested
We found in you happiness, as the beholder of the poor rejoices in provision

9. How many dear ones, if they only knew
The informers' news would not benefit them now

10. The informers' news of the all-encompassing wound and connection from a loyal friend
Will you return to friendship and overlook my agony and yearning?

11. Remain, and let me forget, for living is not sweet
If you are not my companion

12. Leave the brotherhood of a people who ignorantly excused you
And reckon this perceptive one as foolish

13. I seek refuge in your kindness, so lower unto me
A wing of mercy to shelter me

14. Good evening! No, wait a little while
The hour of cruel separation has made me miserable

15. We have parted with one who revives and passes
With an empty heart that feels not my agony

16. You have increased my tribulation, and it is not good
To abandon and forget a passionate lover

17. My soul's entire need, and from me the soul
Altogether is enchanted by this eyelid

18. Do you think I enjoy anything when
You are absent from my sight and my sad heart?

19. The evening is only beautiful and sweet with you
So sit first, and this is my right hand

20. We have gained from the meeting a share
So fulfill my share of the painful separation

21. God suffices me in providing what comes at me from you
And He is the best guardian