1. My friends, have you ever seen a lover like me
Who yearns as a stranger longs for home?

2. My friends, cease blaming a infatuated one,
Whose ears never listen to rebuke.

3. Don't you know that passion has possessed me,
By God, I have no other concern but love!

4. I am enslaved by a gazelle with bewitching eyes,
Who ceaselessly wounds our hearts with arrows.

5. Magic is not really learned from Harut,
Rather, it is learned from alluring eyes.

6. Why then do you blame me for my devotion to him
As if no lover had tasted passion before me?

7. I made a pact with the one I love, a pact of tears,
So they became plentiful, making streams overflow.

8. Whenever my eyelids grow stingy with life,
They revive with showers of tears like springs.

9. I call upon the rule of youths in darkness:
"Have mercy, perhaps after separation comes union!"

10. Is there no kindness after estrangement and turning away?
Is there no returning after separation without end?

11. If you will not help me endure
What I suffer from my love and passion, say who will?