1. My eyes said to my heart, "You have preoccupied me!"
So it replied, "Rather, you with a glance preoccupy me!"

2. You looked and ignited love within my innermost being,
And were it not for you, I would not yearn for your dwellings.

3. So it said to him, "You are the one who motivates passion,
Thus you sent me to pine for every inaccessible object!"

4. For you are the sultan over all my limbs,
So preserve, my lord, every worker from my body!

5. So it said to him, "Were you not a viewer,
I would not have become troubled, intimate with worries!"

6. For you and the ears are guides for the heart;
You brought us news of every event.

7. So the ears said to it, "Rather, you are a sender,
And were it not for you, we would not listen to any speaker's words!"

8. So my heart said to them, "If I am an owner,
Remaining and not moving from those fortresses,

9. Then how could I know the news
That informs us of the matter of Zayd and Wā'il?"

10. "I know no reports but through your reports,
And were it not for you, no doer's deed would come to me!"

11. So it said to them, "You have wearied me, for all of you
Are equal in conspiring upon every falsehood!"

12. "And were it not for you, I would not lie down to rest
Languishing, crazed, between ardors and songstresses!

13. Oh, fear God who has joined us together,
And do not leave me confused amongst the ignorant!"