1. You, my desire, have made me ill
With yearning for the shapely ones

2. Soft, delicate, beautiful,
Bright complexioned, languid eyelids

3. And for every beauty charming, pleasing
Exquisite, unique in form

4. And for every slender, elegant one
Of splendid, towering stature

5. And for the joy of gardens where palms
And its trees and the cool shade

6. My eye said this is not from me
Rather, the heart is intent on sending me

7. I said: O heart you have unleashed my eye
To graze in the meadows of the shapely ones

8. My heart said: the ear has informed me
By hearing from it to convey

9. I said to the ear: how can you listen
To gossip of an image in the market of flirts

10. Then whisper it to the heart until
It became distressed and preoccupied

11. The heart said: the master of every limb
Is its sultan without contention

12. So when he wants to manage an affair
Each limb obeys him in action

13. So we turned to the heart at times and said
You, you are the pivot in every state

14. It said: I am hidden from everything
I do not know any deed from the deeds

15. Never does an ear or eye hear
And inform me of women and men

16. Every limb comes to me with a matter
So I was confused in great preoccupation

17. Blame and contention arose from
This one and that and talk grew heated

18. It was said: there must be an arbiter to judge
Between the disputants with words

19. It was said: the body is the judge and it is just
It is truthfulness in speech

20. My body said: If my words are acceptable
I have said the truth between you, I do not care

21. Each of you have cooperated to commit
Every falsehood and misguidance

22. So I became ill from your beauty prolonging
My time fettered in depravities

23. So fear Allah, O my loved ones, you
If you reform one day my state will reform

24. So be upright in your life, do not tilt
If you are just, I will be balanced