1. Do you have any sympathy or understanding
In Iraq or beyond in Marw and Rayy?

2. O you who raided my heart with nobility
And wars from your coquettish glance,

3. You kill people without fear of retribution
We have not seen reality like metaphor.

4. O critic and conversation of sorrows
Is what you do permissible?

5. You tore my devoted heart with separation
And a promise that brought no fulfillment.

6. Tell me, by the right of love, will you allow connection
And give me the answer concisely?

7. Where can a besotted heart find peace
With the motions of your swaying hips?

8. Love that the rejecting are not my state
So rouse me and expose me from hiding.

9. Flirt more as you wish to flirt
With the glances of your amorous eyes.

10. Do not break the pacts of union
And spare us from ambiguous riddles.

11. What is it, my dear, that would displease you
If I confessed my love in the old-fashioned way?

12. Take on the manner of the noble, for the noble
Repays beauty with beauty, my love.

13. Life's chance is but a shadow so let us
Seize it in the best way.