1. O sun of Baghdad, I am grieving
Since affection and kindness from you died

2. I was burdened with the sun when I saw a man
Whose heart, O people, was burdened with the sun

3. I said, when I lost your writings
Like your covenant, and time brings together

4. If only the blowing winds
Would carry our needs and alternate

5. My heart, had I but lost it, I would have suffered with it
At times hiding, at others barren

6. It raves about a graceful, pampered gazelle
Clad in the garb of beauty, shrouded

7. A charming gazelle adorned with grace
Rather, grace itself adorned with it

8. Beauty and splendor obeyed him, so
Proudly he adorned it with wonder at himself

9. Circumstances prevented me from seeing him
Would that circumstances had destroyed themselves

10. O moon that dispelled the darkness
O pearl that no oyster contained

11. O garden whose dweller never dies
Every conscience is inclined toward you