1. My eyes said to my heart, "You have kept me busy."
So it said to them, "Rather, you with a glance occupy me."

2. You looked and ignited love in my affections,
And were it not for you, I would not yearn for your dwellings.

3. So it said to them, "You are the one who stirs up passion,
So you sent me to pine for every inaccessible thing."

4. For you are the sultan of all the senses
Of the body, so protect, my master, every worker.

5. So it said to them, "If you were not a seer,
I would not become troubled, a comrade of preoccupations."

6. For you and the ears are guides to the heart,
You brought us news of every event.

7. So the ears said to it, "Rather, you are a sender,
And were it not for you, we would not listen to any speaker."

8. So my heart said to them, "If I am an owner,
Remaining and not moving from those fortresses,

9. Then how could I know the news
That informs us of the matter of Zayd and Waa'il?"

10. "And I do not know the news except through your reports,
And were it not for you, no doer's deed would come to me."

11. So it said to them, "You have wearied me, and each one of you
Is equal in that you have cooperated upon every falsehood."

12. "And were it not for you, I would not lie down to rest on the bedrolls,
Languishing, crazed among the fevers and lovesickness."

13. "Will you not fear God, the One who created harmony between us?
And will you not leave me lying among the ignorances?"