1. O you who are supreme in beauty, does
Your cruelty know any bounds that I know?

2. I am tormented by my love for you,
While my heart is infatuated with you.

3. Surely you will abandon me, but I
Do not know for whom I am being unjust.

4. You always threaten me and decree
Estrangement and control.

5. You made lawful shedding my blood, O you
Who possess beauty - and that is forbidden.

6. Or did you not know that I
Am a Muslim in the religion of your love?

7. It would not have harmed you had you forgiven
And been one who pardons.

8. O full moon - indeed, it is your right -
To me you are the greatest.

9. So have mercy, for your glances’
Arrows have pierced my eyelids.

10. I know your chastity and
It is enough that you know.

11. You taught me what I did not
Know before loving you.

12. I have a tear for you each time
I conceal my love for you, it translates.

13. And I have hidden my youth,
And I think it will not be hidden.

14. How can I be saved when I am
Filled with passionate love for you?

15. By God, how sweet you are when
You wear your striped cloak and turban.

16. By God, O light of darkness,
Reconcile, for your reconciliation brings prosperity.

17. And leave off the words of blame,
For parting from them cures my illness.

18. I swear by your appearance, by which
I swear unlike any other.

19. By the stature of your tanned neck
From which I am humbled and submissive.

20. By the eyelash of Harut, from whose
Glances we learn.

21. There is nothing after your smile, which
I almost imagined as a smile.