1. She whose love has captivated my heart
Has made the nights prolong their call

2. How strange that with her distance
She has captivated a longing heart that was her dwelling

3. Oh, if only she had mercy on a loving soul
Who did not know the meaning of passion but through her

4. The beauties claimed my heart was in love
They spoke true, but it desires none but her

5. Never shall it hope to find solace in another
After what her eyes have done to it

6. They said you forgot your love when traveling parties
Departed from her, while you cannot forget her

7. So I replied, desist! I do not listen to your rebuke
Or have you not known that I adore her?

8. How often I stayed up at night saying, oh if only
She would allow a day to meet her

9. If only she would generously grant the easiest moment
My hand would gain its wishes from her life

10. If only she was pleased, I would give all
That my right hand possesses for her satisfaction

11. Until she allowed an instant of reunion
The days relented after spurning her

12. She was stingy with union for a time and when
She was generous, fate intended its call

13. The sweetness of union was a fleeting glimpse
Alas, after that, alas

14. My pact with her, and the magic is from her eyelids
All restraint from her patience forbids her

15. My pact with her, and the roses from her gardens
With a glance forbid one who wishes to pluck them

16. My pact with her, and the perfume made fragrant
From her so I revived my soul when she enlivened it

17. She depicts the gardens, verdant, with features
And so I yearn when the morning breeze stirs her

18. She depicts the stars, lofty and sparkling
So I refused to burden her, though she eased my burden

19. By Allah, her rising that arose
And outshone the lovers, the sun in its clarity

20. By Allah, how beautiful are her face’s charms
And her meaning is most subtle and her mouth most sweet

21. By Allah, how beautiful are her features that
Left my heart infatuated with her dream

22. How wondrous that she has captivated the heart of a depressed lover
Burdened with other thoughts, not contemplating her

23. And if I am burdened with a fragment of her, then my longing
Is for her meaning, to her singing

24. And I respond to one who blames me for mentioning her
The home of the beloved is most deserving of passion

25. She is the noble presence of the Caliph Yusuf
The honored king, her master and guardian

26. His traveling parties departed at dawn from her abode
And victory escorts her to her claim

27. She proceeds with determination to the lofty mountain
Virtues refused to cast down her pride

28. She aims for the far goal with arrows
Loyalty has pulled her towards its target

29. To take its peak as she seeks the heights
And to be rid of the party of misguidance, their disgrace

30. Or are not her determinations a morning that whenever
They deviate from the straight path, it guides her?

31. She has made the trustee a protecting master
Who fulfilled the rights of glory when he reached her

32. Damn them! They did not appreciate the worth of the one
Whose right hand was generous with its overflowing seas

33. She is the one who did not contend with the clouds of life
Except to surpass the rain-clouds with her showers

34. Or are not of your attributes the qualities that
Kings boast of when mentioning her?

35. Or are not of your attributes the resolves that
The brilliant stars seek their ascension?

36. And O Allah, what a Grenada!
A house we repeat in our intents and remember it

37. When my master left it, it changed
Its state and dreams transformed

38. For wherever the victorious, satisfied king settles
We find generosity, nobility, and grandeur

39. It did not arouse longing for him when yearning
Except his determination prevented meeting her

40. Nor did intense longing thirst in its ruins
Except the rain of tears watered it

41. The clouds of tears whenever life was miserly
Remembrance spurred them on to irrigate it

42. So the hearts of its people churn with love sickness
When protection was aloof from its haven

43. And the souls of its people roam remembering him
Burdened with all he bestowed and endowed

44. It extended its palms in your victory to supplicate
And asked for your eternity from God as a gift