1. Alas! How much does longing torment you
What does it intend and what does it say

2. And how much does that make its marks fade
And how much does that make its yearnings lonely

3. Have you no mercy, no kindness
Don't you know that I am slain

4. Is there every day a she-camel led
And tears shed and affliction intensifies

5. And a heart that melts, an eyelid that pours
A mind that greys, a soul that flows

6. So how much is this weariness, how much this languor
How much this procrastination, how much this departure

7. Pray for me, for sleep has flown from me
Illness has adhered, wailing has prolonged

8. And do not think me to be at ease
Even if the ignorant envious blame you

9. For my body is thin, my shelter collapsible
My heart is sick, my night is long

10. My eye is tearful, my love is formidable
My patience is fleeting, my concern grows

11. To God I complain of a sweetheart
Whose love for me never fades

12. You have severed the ropes, cut off union
And the best of people is an intimate friend