1. Your eyes have set my heart aflame
Alas for your glance, what sword it has unsheathed!

2. Your eyelids - no Babylon sorcerer spews forth
What hearts made whole they have shattered with magic!

3. Does your estrangement offer any respite
That I might find rest from its pangs? How long, how long?

4. My envious censurers gloated when they saw
My state fragmented once more after reunion

5. In your mouth lies the fountain of wine - give me to drink
Who else has brought forth pearls from the gravel?

6. How many arrows have I launched from my heart but they disobeyed
Refused me, flouted me, defied my command,

7. Save the loyal, righteous fellowship of those
Amongst whom he came - came not midst others; has any other come?

8. The people of sincerity, honor and chivalry
They adorned purity and manliness

9. Truly I speak, make no bones, saying
To my critics words both deaf and deafening:

10. No sword save Thulfiqar, no warrior but
`Ali - blessed be that knight!

11. Never have I loved others, ever hated them
Ordained as he did the prayer and the fast