1. Another breaks his covenant of love with you
And shares his passion, yet acts faithlessly

2. And is tempted by the slanderers' gossip about you
And others than you, and passes it on

3. When it comes to names and attributes, he is constrained
By notions of a blind death, never to be revived

4. He knows not the meaning of the named, nor its name
Yet clings to his discourse desperately

5. I am devoted in my love for you, and devoted to
Inheriting its precepts, and bequeathing them

6. While others in their straying pray for other than what
I pray for, though when I pray, dishevelled am I

7. I sensed the fire of your love in the night of disdain
And in my jealousy cried: Stay, strangers!

8. I love a beautiful knight in the night of disdain
When she appeared, though the veil was new

9. My love is old for you, and my anguish
Ever increases each instant for you

10. So my every tongue talks of you
Among mankind, and if they speak, their ears listen

11. No flattery has turned my inclination from you
To deter me from you, though straying he seeks

12. No, never will the knots of my creed be loosed
By the exhalations of one practising sorcery