1. Since the group has gone abroad,
No pleasant life is left for me to enjoy.

2. When he prepared for departure I thought,
From his frequent sighs, he was restless.

3. And my heart was grieved in the evening
When the saddled camels turned away.

4. On the camels, from the clan of 'Amir,
Were cheerful faces traveling veiled.

5. A cheek, that would please you journeying abroad,
If its fire had not been touched would be extinguished by the water of youth were it to blaze.

6. O freshness of lively communion, it is fitting
That you disdain the gloom of the sullen and discontent.

7. I would ransom with my soul him for whom I defend
One who has willfully severed life and become estranged.

8. I was not formerly one with a share in love -
You made me have in it an appointed portion.

9. You have kindled me with estrangement into a fire that has not died out,
So I knew that your passion is lasting and firmly rooted.

10. And you ordered me not to pass by your abode -
Yet whenever I passed by it I turned aside.

11. You feared the spy, and had you felt secure you would have allowed him
And you forbade the tears of my eye to flow down my cheeks.

12. And you made it a law for me that I should not speak of my love,
Did you feel safe that the silent would dictate and then write?

13. Do not mingle the purefriendship with coldness,
Water has no need to be frozen to be pure.

14. Why does my imagination roam at large
When it has now become fearful and watchful?

15. Did it fear your enemies when you ordered it
Neither to touch openly nor secretively?

16. Do not restrain it from visiting me, for even if
It did not come from longing, it would come from caprice.

17. How I complain of being shunned, thinking that I
Complain and reproach, hoping to be reproached!