1. Do you know my story, O wise one,
Of how I've been made to stay put by you?

2. Though my gaze has healed my fervor,
My body remains frail and sick.

3. My tears have become the substance of my cup,
Filled with passion and regret, my companion.

4. How long will my debt to you drag on,
Unjustly, while my love is denied?

5. In passion I lost the merit of patience,
While the lover is devoid and wanting.

6. I take refuge in Allah from words
In which Satan the Accursed speaks.

7. The path of love leads straight
Through the fires of passion in my heart.

8. I complain of what's inside me to my beloved,
But his heart is not kind.

9. I've become healthy in my misery -
No one inherits the wellness of the wretched.

10. My gaze and its shape are like my body,
Weak, as is the soft breeze.

11. Many are the lions that pounced
On the gazelles with a mere gaze in the meadows.