1. My friend, your love is an obligation and tradition
That awaits dissemination and passion

2. For you are in the heart, from the heart, my wish
And you are in the eye, from the eye, my delight

3. O dwelling of lovers, without you there would be
No yearning of the heart, no tranquility

4. I rave with your memory, and it suffices me always
To rave with your memory, openly and in secret

5. I pledged a heart to you that is mortgaged
O you who saw a pledged heart pledge itself

6. I loaded it with more than it could bear to carry
A heavy burden that turns to ardor and melancholy

7. I cry and water Nejd with bloodied tears
Not like one who cries over the unscathed

8. O like my father the gazelle, from whose hand
Passion's seditions arose against him

9. You are nothing but the scent of roses
That the perfume-maker extracted from a valley of bliss

10. Or a precious pearl I adorned with its price
While my soul and body are the price

11. Do not distance yourself from my sight, hearing,
Tongue, smell, or touch

12. Were it not for twilight, perhaps and maybe
My soul would have filled the body

13. I swear by the Ancient House, Mina,
Taybah, and the trusted Prophet

14. For a thousand eras your beauty is one
O singular beauty for a thousand eras

15. My two friends, you have not left in a time
Of joy, not joy and sorrow

16. The authority of passion did not transgress love's rule
Who could restrain you two from obeying commands?

17. You remain while living in its bliss
As long as birds trill atop the branches