1. By myself, and my soul is not light to me,
So drinking takes me down from it for prices.

2. A beloved turned away from me and was silent to my groaning,
And he shot the arrows of separation deliberately, so he deafened me.

3. Though the worry of old age had been enough,
When he went away, he brought worries nearer.

4. I opened for him from the tear of my eye a spring,
So he troubled my drinking with separation and made me thirsty.

5. And I pastured him from the goodness of my pact, its bounty,
So he rendered my hopes barren and made my times desolate.

6. I swore by what he had for me of consent
Measuring by what I had, but he broke his oath.

7. And yet for what touched me of paucity
I will yearn from seeing him with the thirst of a thirsty man.

8. I asked my eyelids concerning him to bring his throne near,
So I was eqyal with the jinn of passion to the jinn of Solomon.

9. Whenever someone of the people calls upon him by his name,
I stand up, and I have not adopted the character of the indifferent.

10. By God, I do not listen concerning him to any blamer;
I have protected him until he and I became delirious.

11. Nor has my soul felt the mercy of a worshipper
Who would shade a day like it a servant of the Merciful.

12. Nor before him did it feel a yearning
That penetrated it between spirit and body.