1. O gazelle of the valley's slope from Wadi Zarud
Be wary of God and beware those covenants for me

2. Find comfort for my eyes with a glance, though never
Have I tasted in passion the savor of intimacy

3. The slanderer adorned his words about me
So I broke from my pact and enemies rejoiced

4. Would that I'd never hoped for more affection
Since you've recompensed me for it with estrangement

5. Oh, my yearning for the days of meeting
Would that remembering them might recur to my hearing

6. Can our past life shelter me somewhere
Or a gazelle that was my companion, now wandering?

7. I see the bending branch of sincere friendship
Intoxicated with the zeal of youth among the sands

8. A hard-eyed one sent during a respite
That split the hearts before flaying the skins

9. If my heart has an eyelid steeped in my blood
Long have I weeped staining my cheeks red

10. When I'm titled amongst my people "star of good fortune"
And through my merit foes have witnessed success

11. So forever peace from me upon
He through whom the Merciful brought existence into being