1. If (Lamiya) cannot fulfill the promise
Then my heart, can it bear a response to her?

2. Peace be upon her: If she persists in love
I see no good in dying of sorrow for her

3. Oh a look that caused much regret
And inflicted agony in my heart because of her love

4. Her beauty enslaved me
I am slave to none but her beauty

5. My liver is scorched with fires
As if her burning coals were upon my insides

6. With sigh after sigh she wears me out
Her breath between ribs cannot be extinguished

7. But if a breeze blew from the beloved
I found its breeze cool upon my heart

8. If not for hope that desires will be fulfilled
I would have perished from passion for her

9. Does she disdain me, while for her
My heart harbors unrestrainable love?

10. Never has she despaired, and in despair is comfort
Nor has she ever reconciled after spurning me

11. Even if she asked of me to change my faith
She'd see me obedient, neither disobedient nor unyielding

12. My friend, love is what your brother desires
So harden your heart for me

13. My friend, if you see my family
Tell them to dig my grave near her abode

14. And to wrap me, before my grave, in her gown
Perhaps it will make her weep for one she deliberately killed

15. No hunter finds that heat ripens
The forbidden rose, if he draws near it blocked

16. More than my passion for her I have not found
Yet in any case, I am a man of fortitude

17. When the strikes of fate someday befall me
They strike a lion, not a submissive creature, in warding off harm

18. The crucible of trial is not softened
To the mocker, if the chewing stone itself is solid