1. I languish in your love though you are heedless,
Why should I jest about your love while you jest?

2. O you who has kindled fires in my innermost being,
Burning so fiercely I am about to wither and wither away.

3. My heart points to you, for in gloom you are
The moon in the sky, you have made it your dwelling.

4. Grant that your cheek was afflicted with a blemish,
Why did your temple become disturbed while it is chained?

5. I swear by your eyebrow that has not knitted
Except to show us a captive and it is unleashed.

6. And by the smoothness of the saliva of your mouth,
It was interpreted, it is the soft flowing nectar.

7. If it were not for your organized kissed lips,
It would not have passed from loving you while being kissed.

8. Your beauty and charm if it went beyond reproaching me
And I was saved from it, it would be wholesale and retail.

9. If you were just in the law of love,
My unjust one, you would not have been unjust with me.

10. I importune you, and if he knew of my youthfulness,
He who blames would give me respite from his blaming.

11. Or is it not strange that my tears are eloquent
Of the secret I conceal while it is neglected?

12. I sacrifice myself while your affliction comes to you hastily,
I have exposed the secret of passion and over it the morning dawn streams.

13. O you who commands me to be patient so it may deceive me,
Patience, as you say, is most beautiful.

14. But the deliverance of a lovesick heart is dear,
Whose hands are left by separation and it is confused.

15. Alas! No! There is no life for one who becomes
In his body for every limb there is death.

16. And for many a reproacher whose coquetry has wounded,
I contain while the best wealth is spent wealth.

17. The young virgin reproaches me and she knows
That in what she has intended from reproaching me she is ignorant.

18. She said, “I have destroyed what my hands possessed.
Who is he, that when you are brought up, you can depend on?"

19. So I answered her with firm intoxicated determination,
The pangs of love from its occurrence shake and quiver.

20. By Allah! I do not fear tribulations and I have a refuge
That is the abode of the mighty king, my father al-Muzaffar.

21. A king whose good treatment I am certain of
And I depend on the gifts of his palm.