1. And someone lost in the wilderness of error said to me,
“Love has no path and no rules to follow.”

2. And he cried, “Woe to the passionate lovers!
Whenever they are rebuked for their passionate love,

3. They only plunge deeper into its floods.”
Perhaps you may escape them, I said to myself.

4. But not I! Perish the thought that I should ever escape!
Just look at her - can you ever look at her without seeing

5. A being far beyond all other lovers?
A bough and a thick branch - the bough bends gently

6. While the branch is rigid and inflexible.
A sun and a night - and the wonder is that the rising sun

7. Shines radiantly while night lies dormant in gloom.
The soft flowing juice is sweet nectar, yet in my heart

8. It kindles a fiery blaze, and chill ice in my mouth.
In her face is the Kaaba of Beauty, so for my eyes