1. With my wealth and possessions I wooed Ahmed's daughter,
Who rejects my messages and casts them away.

2. The virtuous beauty Nabiya has left every unbeliever;
She has renounced the religion of passion, a just believer.

3. With a nightingale that dwells forever in empty fire
And surrenders, while the beloved is worn away from its shade.

4. You lie if you say "Welcome!" to my love,
And you know I have found solace in it with people.

5. And you ask for sending the arrows to my innermost being
When you have filled my heart with the glances of your eyes.

6. What is wrong with her, O Lord, she who is a gazelle,
Becoming, when I call her to be kind, a lion cub?

7. What is wrong with the eyelids' tenderness becoming claws
And my cheeks are worn away by longing?