1. The reproachers woke up early at dawn
Saying to me, "Won't you wake up?"

2. And blaming you, O daughter of Abdullah
While my heart is captivated by you

3. I know not - since you started blaming me -
Whether it's a foe or a friend who blames me

4. The best of perfumes is the scent of Umm Ali
Musk, ambergris and camphor well-blended

5. She mixed it with another and with seeds
So it is the sweetest scent to the hands

6. It adorns her, the necklace of pearls
Flowing down to her radiant forehead

7. Her cheeks like rosebuds, alluring
Not short, broken, nor slack in their bloom

8. Bright faces you'd think when the stars dim
Were disappearing at night's first glimmer

9. The morning breeze, red like wine
Shows you specks like scattered fragrant powder

10. The Jewish merchant kept it around her neck
So its aged scent grew even sweeter

11. Then the seal was broken from her eyelids’ veil
And she was put up for sale by the Jew

12. A noble and generous connoisseur bought her
An aromatic Levantine, a polished Greek

13. Then they called at dawn and she came
A singing girl, a pitcher in her right hand

14. I served it on a tray like a sandgrouse’s eye
Polished by the juggler’s hand

15. Pure before it's blended, once blended
Its taste is sublime for those who taste it

16. Bubbles frothed over it like rubies
Adorning it with a pleasant crackling

17. I killed it with a clear white whip
Its pleasant blend adorned by the crackling

18. Above the heights unreachable
Eagles and lammergeiers hover above

19. Then it was blended like rain cloud’s water
Neither cold nor lukewarm

20. When she poured there was tenderness enveloping her
Lower parts covered in brambles

21. Upper parts pure, arousing the howlers
Where the shade falls on one embraced by the cape

22. And the wind lifts its specks away