1. I have always asked him so many questions
Yet he answers me with nothing but "no"

2. Whenever I lean in to sip the sweet honey from his lips
He shakes his slender figure and says "don't!"

3. He recoils in wonder and hints at refusal
Then leans in close again to say "come hither"

4. I was used to wine though it is forbidden
So why did it become permissible with you?

5. It's as if I'm a scholar of love when with him
I came to him seeking debate and discourse

6. I meant to kiss him for guidance
Yet my saliva was his harsh rebuke or misguidance

7. My mind was confused in explaining my state to him
How can a lion spare a gazelle?

8. If I obey this passion for him, then I
Have disobeyed the Guide and the Judge

9. How many glances from his eyes in the night club
Fleeting from under his eyebrows like arrows

10. Oh what a warrior he is against my love
Calling out with his lashes "to battle!"

11. He fights only with languid, drowsy eyes
With tears flowing from the lids as weapons

12. The uncaring support him over me
Whenever the souls become cheap, he becomes dear

13. Every war is for him and not against him
Though we hear it said to be mere squabbling

14. I am tempted by his indifference to roam
To forsake sleep and join those who are parted

15. Mocking the branches as he walks with a sway
And the spears as he stands with poise

16. And the morning light on his cheek and the shady
Tresses as water and moles as beauty

17. It did not pain me to lose the apple of my eye
When he shaped it with his mole

18. He busied himself with his cup until we saw
The crescent moon as a halo around the sun

19. The drunkenness of youth distracted us
He is a mere boy who got a bit lost

20. My jealousy over his love blamed me
And I see no fault in his love

21. He is accustomed to blame in love and coyness
While I whisper to him as he feigns sleep

22. A king too glorious to be condemned by a king
Too exalted or base in status and grandeur

23. The higher he rose in glory and pride
The humbler he became like a servant

24. With his generous right hand, if he gives or withholds
He spreads rizq and apportions lives among the people

25. You see him with the sword give life
And take the lives of the wrongdoers and heroes

26. Oh you rebels calling others to ascend the high dunes
How long will you roam the deserts?

27. It is enough for you to reach Damascus
Then settle there and unload your burdens

28. None can guarantee rizq other than
Moses after God the Exalted