1. Long have we yearned, O Saad, for our longing
The separation has troubled us, and longing prolonged

2. The gaze of my two eyes turned unkind
While for my brother of passion, it was distress prolonged

3. How much the censurer for ill thoughts spoke
About us, O Saad, things unspoken

4. For the beauty we love, this right hand
Could shake mountains when it is shaken

5. For love we have a pact not to be broken
Loyalty for it has men unbroken

6. The breeze of love passes us by night
Kindling flames in our breasts unspoken

7. We rave while our mounts tremble with fervor
The fervor carried by the graceful unbroken

8. The graceful tremble for it, enamored
Flanks and mounts quiver unbroken

9. Except, O Saad, your abode is a longing
Upon it the gazelle spread its cover prolonged

10. And the arrows of those eyes struck me
In my core, and you know well their unbroken

11. The censurer was amazed at my state
And how much destruction the graceful unbroken

12. A night of charm passed with kindness
Long it was, shortened by union unbroken

13. An imagination of my love roams
Dancing in my core that imagination unbroken

14. I cry and my tears cascade down
Like streams sent by hills unbroken

15. I complain but none feels for me
My love-sickness an illness most unbroken

16. Will the nights unite us, O Saad
After this separation prolonged?

17. May the Master facilitate ease
And unveil from the unseen a state prolonged