1. Turn your heart away, O Abbas, looking back
Or else you will die of love for her, perished

2. Indeed, I grant my love to all who are faithful
Attentively, and preserve it if they are absent or present

3. I disobeyed, in her, all of God's servants
Whoever blamed me for ignorance or blamed me for wisdom

4. Love was not lost from my heart when she was lost
But my heart the next morning was lost

5. Why weep for what is past and the nights are gone
With the days, so be gone too

6. If she were beyond Rome in a country
I would dwell in no other place but that land

7. O you who complained of longing from the length of his absence
Be patient, perhaps you will meet the beloved tomorrow

8. The young man will not be able to conceal his secret
Until he speaks of it wherever he sits

9. I used to conceal what I encountered and hide it
My utmost effort, so my patience and composure expired

10. Until love revealed what it used to conceal
It strained me, and destroyed the soul and body

11. Indeed, I found love in the heart, whether still
Like fire, or exceeding the heat of flaming fire

12. Fire is extinguished by the coolness of water if mixed
And if you mixed love with water, it would not cool

13. She is my wish, I love her and seek her
While other people desire money and children

14. When I sleep, she comes to me from afar, but when
I wake, the nearness to her has grown far