1. Love is a hidden disease,
It softens even iron.

2. You hide it yet it shows,
Where hearts are bellies,

3. For love is the embryo.
So we are pregnant -

4. Be not harsh with it
Nor curious about it.

5. Love by parasitism
Is a kind of impossibility,

6. Too difficult to be.
Do not seek the impossible,

7. For people rise and fall in love.
Kings are enslaved by it,

8. It has its way.
Were it not for my faith,

9. I would say Almighty God,
How amazing you made this disease!

10. We always get the opposite with it.
I vowed to fast for God

11. If it would make life pleasant one day.
Do not be fooled by the guise

12. Of its various faces.
How much in the radiant morn

13. Is but a whiff for the debauched
A sudden gust of wind

14. Upon the resting youth -
It makes him mad.

15. Who can bear missteps?
In an instant, passion

16. Shows you the opposite of truth.
Souls are driven by it.

17. All fear its madness.
Do not assume conjectures

18. About what it deems misguidance.
It shows ugliness as beauty

19. Since the free mind became distracted.
In its demands, we have no say,

20. We say of it no reflection.
What He said is the truth -

21. We find no alternative.
God ordained this -

22. Do not say, what for?
Do not transgress and hurt

23. Those who seek refuge from it.
God has secrets in it

24. And clothed it in majesty.
You will find no soothing potion for it,

25. No soothing has been found.
Lovers, from what you experience,

26. Death keeps coming upon you,
And you do not wish to be separated.

27. How many woes love has!
How many afflictions love has!

28. How many secrets love has!
Death is trivial to it.

29. In love, death is trivial.
Beware, O men and women!

30. In the prime of youth,
Beware of passion!

31. In love is all torment,
Though beauty in it is a bubble

32. That almost calls to grief.
Beware of beauty!

33. Live alone, or else
Exchange glory for disgrace,

34. And accept it as a sin that cannot be undone
Even if the trusted one charmed you.

35. You would find no deliverance.
Woe to the passionate!

36. Do not tire of infatuation.
Passion, since the time of Ham,

37. Is the plague of mankind,
And fickle in them is its course.

38. Evil is their end.
What is love but hellfire?

39. In it are enmity and worries,
And pleasure that does not last.

40. If they say it is bliss,
Sorrows in it are slight -

41. Say, like I say: no, no!