1. Love is my religion, I desire no substitute,
Beauty reigns supreme, obeyed near and far.

2. O you whose torment in love is sweet,
I complain of naught but indifference and boredom.

3. My soul is proud but for you I humbly lay it down,
Lowliness is bitter yet for your pleasure endurable.

4. My heart is like a censer perfumed with incense,
Ever more fragrant in love for you when lit aflame.

5. A moon on earth or has Rida's light waned?
Or a temptation beguiling the pious and rational.

6. Blessed is God - what have minds reaped
Of temptations? And what have eyes gleaned?

7. O vision, when your beauty appears excuses abound for love
And the lover, for you, feels only shame.

8. Are my glances safe from those lids
As you’ve protected me with beauty from blame and spite?

9. If you’re an enchanter of creation no wonder,
But I'm amazed that any lips could query you.

10. By God, can affection grant favor to me?
Or match the composure you've equitably dealt?

11. You who've left me no life in my being,
No hope of union, what can he do?

12. I made my cheek a land for him but he demurred,
I offered my soul but he declined.

13. Beauty reigns supreme over creation so kings
Are honored to serve its command.

14. O overseer of beauty souls obey,
O commander of love the world complies.

15. My Master, direct my heart to contentment
As you've adorned it in misery's robes.

16. Grant my heart the bliss of nearness to you
As you’ve burdened it with yearning’s pain.

17. Grace your lover’s service this beauty,
Bestow your pleasure on a soul spent in your quest.

18. O you whose rule of beauty is served by the likes of me,
And my heart that serves the ruling class.