1. How long my longing for those I love is not quenched
For those whose meeting I desire when will it be

2. O you who traveled, yet in my heart you remain
How much can I say, within me you dwelled

3. And I blame my misfortune for parting from you
Though my fate does not answer my call

4. You traveled far to be rid of what pained you
So when can I be close, and vindicated?

5. When will time allow me to meet with you
And cease the separation that hurts me?

6. You headed east while I, in the west, languish
In the west, with its east and branches

7. O you who cares for one with deep wounds
I am the wounded, always in pain

8. Describe to me what you describe for those
You heal, and be prudent of remedies

9. Let not my dignity disguise my weakness
Behind pride, my body is frail

10. I, and He who gives life and death, are not
Of those who perish, nor with the living

11. If you ask about me, I would not
Ask you in misery and calamity

12. I sympathize with a lover like me
Even if he were among my foes

13. Distance cannot extinguish my passion
Only the absence of the gazelle fuels the embers

14. My love for them does not wane over distance
Loyalty does not fade like marks in the sand

15. The days change but my state remains
What you see in my mornings and evenings

16. My tears are held back from flowing
My eyes refrain from closing in sleep

17. I see those who wept for separation
After losing their loved one, weep in reunion

18. Strange is my fate observing me
And my misery, keeping relief from me

19. Strange are my overflowing tears
When people are healed by water's touch

20. Strange is my life, how long amidst sorrow
The days too narrow for my hopes

21. Strange is the night, people crave its end
While my dawn is always slow to emerge

22. I built hope on impossible foundations
So poor are those foundations!

23. Yearning makes me imagine in my ribs
That I'm sleeping while they are my bedfellows

24. Until I wake to find they were just
Ropes of fantasies, nothing real

25. O people of my love, my illness is not
Contagious, return and be safe from my pain

26. My sickness is from the unhealthy glance, my undoing
From the emaciated waist - none else, my foes

27. I ask nothing of you but to mention those
I adore, that suffices names

28. If omens avail, I would be of
The luckiest people, the happiest fortunes

29. For whenever a stranger pronounces their names
Is that but fancy's delusion?

30. Or do feelings arise from what is
Non-existent, of unreal things?

31. I wish people's hearts were mine to sway
If their will is hard, I'll be patient

32. I wish my loved ones knew my state
To hasten in sympathy to save me

33. They are above abandoning me weary
Their aloofness is enough estrangement

34. In passion, passion seems easy
As aloofness with coldness is agony

35. I yearn for the days of past happiness
Joy left with them, and my gladness

36. To what purpose, then, this miserable life?
Remaining is the worst of fates

37. How can I be patient with separation?
When their likeness is not found in statues

38. Were I to complain, I find none who shares my pain
The mockery of complainers is worst of tribulations

39. If I'm silent, the blissful assume
Dejection in me, though unfounded

40. I wonder what turned my beloved
From me, warnings or temptations?

41. They grudged me a breeze of their fragrance
The morning winds could have carried for healing

42. If their hearts remain hardened to
The fires of passion, deaf to my prayers

43. Perhaps they blamed me, so show them
The best of manners, not the worst

44. If I erred, here I ask forgiveness
It is hoped from the noble

45. I'm satisfied with good intentions from them
Though I failed to please, I make no claim

46. So treat me gently, for contentment
Is the same from near or distant

47. If words do not make it plain
Let the remembrance suffice, as fulfillment