1. By Allah, I cannot abandon you
Nor do I want life after you

2. O my killer, did I commit a sin
To deserve this aloofness from you?

3. For God's sake, my love
You promised union, fulfill your promise

4. My heart melts with yearning
For you, no matter how much I remember you after

5. The separation has dragged on and gone stale
While the drink of your love was fresh

6. You broke your vow, I wonder
Did you break your vows to lovers?

7. Who can judge me fairly against you, my master?
You made all the judges your army

8. I have no opponent among the judges
Except you, but how severe you are!

9. Every youth shares with me in loving you
For you alone possess beauty

10. Rumor spread that I resemble
Branches in my slenderness

11. But to me you are greater than
Any comparison of your cheek to a garden

12. Nor are you, oh full moon, content
That the moon of the sky becomes your slave

13. Oh branch, you have grown weary of
A heart madly in love with you

14. Withholding from me, oh branch
He who endowed you with beauty

15. God protect you, oh Gazelle
You attacked with your two glances like a lion

16. You abandon me jesting, but
Your jesting abandonment has become serious

17. Damn the glance that obeyed you
It did not protect my heart within me

18. And attained your purpose
While you, my reproacher, are gentle

19. You have exceeded all bounds
Commanding right, pretending blindness

20. After the blindness of your waywardness
Be however you wish, my love

21. If your rejection were not to spurn me
Abandon me if you wish, or keep company

22. As a sign of your fatigue with me
By God, I fear nothing

23. Except tasting your loss