1. When your enemies learn of my departure from you
Take whatever is said of me as you wish

2. They have maligned me with words
But we have paid them no heed

3. The slanderer wished I would
Make light of him with my speech

4. How will he feel now, convinced of my devotion to you
Happy that I pay him no attention

5. How the people resent you, yet you are content
How cheap are flatterers, yet you are priceless

6. How many glories of my people were ruined
By calamities that shake even mountains, yet you stand tall

7. How many times, when your enemies wronged me
I vowed to sacrifice my blood and wealth

8. How often the curs stirred to attack
While lions protected the sanctity of gazelles

9. How my clan blamed you
I'd think my family's words enlightened

10. How I risked myself for you
Knowing my affliction stems from you

11. How many glimpsed good fortune in a loved one
But for me, my love brought no fortune

12. How many fair ones I tried before you
Yet my state with them became my state with you

13. But for the merit in trying,
The right would not exceed the left

14. I think that in your perfect beauty
And as you embody all aspects of beauty

15. You sought to make imperfection a flaw
Lest the evil eye mar your perfection

16. So I will wrong myself by leaving you
To delight you by my absence

17. If you wish to console a lover
Then count the nights without him aplenty