1. I am the one whom you hear of and see
Do not deny the news of my passion

2. I have a lover whose attributes are perfect
I have a right in his love to make excuses

3. When his beauty became well known
I went out well known in passion for him

4. Everything about my lover is beautiful
I do not see any like my lover in all creation

5. Dazed I have become in him
Dark I have become in longing for him

6. Some of what his glances cast on me
He continues forever to make me infatuated

7. So you see me crying, depressed
And you see him laughing, delighted

8. For at night his hair spreads
In which is the sweetest distress and vigil

9. And in the morning his face appears
Dazzling minds when it dawns

10. And my infatuation in him - how sweet it is
What happened has happened, and those who know, know

11. O busybodies, how unaware you are
If you knew what has happened to me

12. And you gave relief to my heart
This would be an invented tale

13. Between my heart and its relief in love
Is like what lies between al-Thurayya and the ground