1. Is he the beloved who wronged or was just?
I have the choice, but in his love, no.

2. By God, the blamer did not fall short in blaming me
But my ear refused to hear the blame

3. As for prudence, it's something I don't know
Suffice that your treachery be called prudence

4. The eyelids of others woke after they dripped
And the heart of others sobered after they became drunk

5. A bough bent from his robes
I watered it with tears until it bore fruit of blame

6. The breeze of poetry followed it for a while
Whenever it swayed from its sides it became upright

7. I wished and my great ambition aspired
But among the people there is only a hopeful, wishing

8. And Tufayl said oh my little slave and suggested
Am I not your slave and owned? So I said yes

9. No one spoke of my beauty and charm
With his beauty and my love, so take the examples

10. I slapped my cheek fearing being seized by the King
If he gestured with the slightest look to kill

11. The land accepts my limbs and serves him
When he appears from behind the unseen and joins

12. Oh you whose rule of beauty is brilliant
Like me and my heart that serves the rule