1. My beloved, my heart has returned to serenity
Since I loved you, sorrows have been made easy

2. You see pleasure on my face and anger in my heart
Bearing what cannot be borne even by the content

3. I think that when you tested my loyalty
You thought me tranquil, so you burdened me with tribulation

4. Grant me tranquility, accustomed to travel and journeying
No wonder a tranquil one endures with constant sorrow

5. I see you turn away, so I pardon, reluctant
My heart was too weak for pardoning

6. Reproach me for complaining, yet blame inside
Complaints call for reproach and enmity

7. How can I complain when you are my lament?
Had you listened, I'd have told you my woes

8. You, whom love has touched at heart
How could I not love were you not impassioned?

9. God, how I conceal and unfold anguish
Ever unfolding and folding within my heart

10. O planet gracing the earth with its light
O moon adorning the horizon with its halo

11. O solace of the distressed, attractor of the impassioned
Repeller of the lowly, garden of refuge

12. My secret and intimacies are enough for you to know
And my Lord knows all secrets and intimacies

13. My father rules justly over Lu'ay son of Ghalib
A youth who has attained the limits of passion

14. Days have passed that were honest to me about you
Nights went by when you visited me in dreams

15. So curb my desire for a love of yours that lies
To one truthful in his affection, gentle and serene

16. Else they ask me longingly about your love
How many friends ask about a cruel beloved

17. Then let me water with my tears or leave
To water the valley with my flooding tears