1. Do you aspire, O Abbas, to the unattainable?
You have wandered far, leave this fruitless longing!

2. Have you not seen how the ropes of passion
Ensnared David the prophet, whether you have heard or not?

3. And passion has always been hostile to people
Harming them since the time of Ad and Tubba'.

4. It seems the sorrows of jinn and mankind
Have lodged in my heart, they exceed it and my ribs.

5. The mounts of night have knelt down on all sides,
And the stars of night have retreated from their positions.

6. If the minds of people were revealed, every suckling babe
Would be weaned from its wet nurse.

7. My soul complained to me of longing and love,
So I said, “You have sought the affection of one who refuses!”

8. This love of yours was but stubbornness,
Had you wished otherwise, you would not have desired or aspired.

9. It is but what you see, and the passionate lover
Struggles with a burden, so be patient or split apart!

10. May God one day grant respite with mercy,
And vindicate me from my disgracer and terrifier.

11. By my life! It varies between one madly wandering
And one relaxed while his mind is bidding farewell.

12. I concealed her name with the concealment of one who protects his honor
And is wary of vile eavesdropping.

13. So I called her Fawz, though had I declared her name
I would have named her with a tremendous, horrendous name!

14. Oh my regret that carving has not fulfilled my appetite,
Nor has the length of this pleading helped me.

15. I gifted her my soul, but she was miserly in uniting with me,
What a giver you are, and what a withholder!

16. To you I complain of my affliction,
And I have tasted the flavor of death, had it not been for your encouragement.

17. Grant me my blood, do not kill me without blood,
For the chaste do not deserve murder.

18. Whenever the eye remembers you one day,
My tears flow down my cheeks in fours.

19. So end all my worries with a separation
From union, leaving for me even a finger's worth.

20. I am your slave, so if you wish, torment me,
And if you wish, favor me however you want and do as you please.

21. You want none but a caring advisor,
So I am the obedient one, voluntarily submitting.

22. The sign between me and you is that you see
A sealed letter, the seal a square.

23. A bracelet whose edges are soft,
And in its engraving, “O ear of Fawz, listen!”

24. I wished you would quench my thirst for love,
And graze in the meadows of love’s agony.

25. That you would be my morning and retire
When the night casts its veil like your retiring.

26. It is enough that I have been tested by love, and that
Whenever I say I have wept, my tears flow.

27. I returned, and some of the return was bitter,
The meadows of passion from every slope are a pasture.

28. So I continued to toast her with two cups, whenever
I drank from one cup, its sister remained with me.

29. I passed them from every basin to my mouth,
At times to provoke, at others to a drinking place.

30. With thirst, until the meadows of passion appeared
Spread out after my pasture was spread.

31. I wavered, my joints loosened from intoxication,
I sway like the trunk of a shaking palm tree.