1. My love for you, O Abu Muslim
Is devoted to my beloved

2. So do not ask on the day of intent about blood
That flowed from my eyelids like beads

3. Until a gazelle appeared to me from Mina
Between the valley of Kheif and M’zam

4. I showed her a glance emptied of
Presence, so she was startled and made lawful my blood

5. So I said, and my eyelids were
Dripping from the sickness in them diseased

6. O gazelle, spare me
In a sacred state but for you unforbidden

7. I only made pilgrimage to meet you among
A group of those who meet you at the season

8. I divulged what Allah has forbidden of
Killing a devout ascetic in sacred garb

9. Return his heart to him and you will be rewarded
And do not make my praise of his blood a sin

10. Do not kill him for he has a party
The days have no power against their shelter