1. Are you one who listens to the torment of lovers
O heart, or are you the most deaf of the deaf

2. Lovers are to the people of passion
Like the immoral are to the vilest and lowest

3. Did you grieve when the beloved showed disdain
Do not deprive the beloved, even if he deprives you

4. If he listens one day to the slanderers
Be patient, for patience in adversity is more useful

5. Perhaps from his slumber he will awake for you
As many who slumber have awakened to loyalty

6. The rule of youth is that its passion
Is humbled and bowed to the beloved

7. O you who cast off the cloak of devotion, crazed in his love
And disobeyed those who would deter me

8. Were you ever a comforter to reunion,
O my sorrow - how many have you interceded for

9. You are the beloved, my heart does not covet
A lifelong separation from you

10. And if the days have cast me far from you
To dwell in the garden of seclusion

11. Yet you have over me the pact I swore
The brilliant pact of fidelity I swore

12. By your right, since I was absent from you
My heart has not ceased to ache for you

13. The night passes in longing and sorrow
And the whiteness of my days is agony

14. The king of love enthralled me in you, so no
Blame of the blamer or reproach will benefit

15. I have torn the veil of patience from you
And my patience in you is utterly destroyed

16. It is no wonder, after we parted, how
My soul still delights in the company of its body

17. Or how I hope for the days that betrayed me
In your presence, or how in them I still hope

18. For time is unjust to lovers
And against the generous its weapons are more brutal

19. When I wanted to disparage it, I recited a verse
With the most fragrant rhyme of the Imam

20. Ugly is your face, o time, for it is a face
Veiled with every villainy and disgrace