1. Say to my friend Abu Ali
This is not what a friend does

2. You did what was unbecoming of me
Or anyone like you

3. You broke your vow though I thought
It was firm and binding

4. And you forgot my due rights which
You tended to neglect

5. You had promised me a promise that
The likes of you can easily break

6. That you would dispel my worries on a day
That brings together separated friends

7. A day in which your intoxicating old wine
Would soothe the anguish in my heart

8. But you abandoned me and left me
Does not your gentle face feel ashamed?

9. You knew well that I am thirsty
For a sip and will not cease to crave

10. That in craving beautiful faces I have
No life unless I pine

11. You shut your door to me though it
Does not shut out true friends

12. And did you not know that my gratitude
Is a tender slave to your kindness?

13. By the wine we shared which would
Shame the blush of anemones

14. And every dark-eyed gazelle whose
Slim waist tortures me

15. Whose buttocks complain to her hips
Of the wrongdoing of her delicate waist

16. The youth has from her roses and gardens
Fragrance and from her mouth, nectar

17. If you do not lament my reproach
It will bring what you cannot endure

18. For we have never met along the road
Without it uniting our paths