1. My longing for you, as you know, is long
And perhaps my patience in loving you is beautiful

2. O absent one in my heart whose image is present
As if he were for me in your absence, a substitute

3. The shrine is too far for one weak and incapable
This book to you about it is a deputy

4. If you deny the ache in his heart
It has witnesses from those who resented him that are just

5. The undulations of the earth stood between you and yearning
And for so long beyond the dunes it tosses and turns

6. And I saw your figure in the distance, it
Is like the moon we see but cannot reach

7. O pearl of the diver, without meeting her
There are roaring seas, I sacrifice myself for you, is there a way?

8. The turns of fate have unraveled our pact
So I shed my tears while in you it is little

9. Half of the heart is its beloved so when it is distant
The heart is devastated and from it comes a slain one

10. Long has been my wait and life is short
And both are heavy causes upon me

11. Woe the time is lost, fallen
A day passes without your presence, O intimate friend

12. The pillar of life, its bliss, if it does not
In living contain goodness, then life is redundant

13. By my father the sick [poet], well-wishes, honor
That yearns the return of the likes of Gabriel

14. Who does not desire the wellness of his soul
If he did not have a beautiful one by his side

15. O you who cured the ailing body with his gentleness
Not the health of the world while you are ill

16. Oh, if only I had health that could be ransomed for you
But the separation has laden me with burdens

17. The sickness will pass as past wellness did
For all under the sky will perish

18. This eclipse of you, O full moon of nightfall
And we see the eclipse of the full moon does not last long