1. My eyes' illusion of sleep is transient,
On the day of turmoil with a restless heart,

2. His dwelling has become remote to me,
His lands and homes have become remote,

3. I graze on care for him with every glance,
My passion for him fluctuates between warmth and heat,

4. I set free the glance in the pastures of gazelle,
With the eyes of a love-sick gazelle and its shyness,

5. Tell me to cast off my worries as burdens,
And beware in case his caution takes note,

6. Of delicate build, he does not suspect,
Except when his coolness shook in his gait,

7. His anklet gave away and his bracelet slipped,
The pallor and redness of a cheek increases for me,

8. The more it increases, the more his redness grows,
The coquetry of an eyelid has bared a blade,

9. When its flash appeared, the sword revealed its sharpness,
Who feels for the agony of my lovelorn heart,

10. Preoccupied with you night and day?
It seeks to cool the heart with tears,

11. Flowing from his streaming torrents,
The duty of the heart knows no rest,

12. In a dormant passion that knows no peace,
My excuse for my dusty love,

13. My love purified it and its excuse cleansed it,
With one who does not grant sanctuary to a neighbor,

14. My Lord is my neighbor against him, and God is his neighbor,
Blessed is the illusion that visited me,

15. And came to me while the darkness donned its gown,
It surpassed the slumber of my eyes until,

16. It woke the sleepy eyelid and lashes,
Breaking the narcissus with the tip of an eyelash,

17. The slumbering eye recovered when it cracked,
O you who reprimands youth, the favor of old age,

18. Can youth return borrowed to me?
A tyrannical fate rules me,

19. Where is my weakness against it and where is its power?
It lit the fire in the dark night,

20. The night of carousing illuminated its flames,
If you could see the fire and carousing as my friends,

21. You would think I am Farazdaq and his companions,
A sigh sends up smoke into the air,

22. And tears suffice to direct its descent,
O tears flowing down the cheeks,

23. You moved the heavens on earth with your seas,
Passion struck flint in the heart,

24. Sparks piercing with lovesickness flying from it,