1. The flag of dawn has risen and spread wide
And ink of darkness over the horizon brings good tidings

2. Above its glimmering dresses are stars
That outshine the flashes of darkness, so they fade

3. And I became confined in a coat between my passion and her estrangement
As a bangle becomes too tight for her and her gown

4. Veiled in the brilliance of dawn, keeping her mystery
And the scented breeze slept on her pillow

5. She moved cautiously in the darkness, hiding
As if the moon hides itself in the wings of darkness

6. And if she did not want dawn to rise radiant
It would not have risen, thrilling and glowing

7. Why not in a night of her returning did she travel
As if it were of the splendor of beauty, fully moonlit

8. She cried or almost cried softly for her lover
So, O you who saw dew drops on the rose flow

9. And I hugged her as she wept, so her necklace scattered
She recoiled and said, “Why does my necklace come undone?”

10. So, O pilgrim to me, I have not fulfilled her right
And for me, on the ground, her slipper is perfumed

11. And my soul cannot bear to see a messenger come from them
Bringing union, giving me good news

12. Nor prolonging the excuse of estrangement, so he is excused
And if I am a lion in the eyes of maidens

13. Roaring, and in frenzy, a fierce lion, maned
My time is whitening, and my love still black

14. My sword reddening, and my life still green
So I have become in the war of passions defeated

15. Just as I am in the war of help victorious
Is it not strange that my gaze finds gazelles pleasant

16. While my gaze makes gazelles recoil?
And the narcissi make the branch forget the beauty of its bending

17. I have envied it for the branch of wishes, flowering
She has a wrap - if it were to teach tenderness to her heart

18. Mine would not have stayed burning, cracking all night
And a gaze that secretly tells me of its love time and again

19. And overcomes me in it, so I am exposed
Strong in killing the lover, yet it

20. Is weaker than my patience when she is estranged
It makes the eyes of creation sleepy when it is drowsy

21. And guides the path of love when confused
And if she smiled, she revealed a veil of aquamarine

22. Over a ring in which is red coral and pearl
And when I kissed her I said her texture is

23. Wine, necklace, honey, and ambergris
So O my thirst for the sweet - is there from you a watering place?

24. And O my watering place in love - is there from you a source?
O wonder at me! The lion fears my power

25. While to the frightened lion my heart trembles
And I have a conquering glance that captures hearts

26. And drags the train of beauty, enchanting
And she entrusted my heart with a hellish fire of love

27. While in her cheek is Eden, and in her mouth, Kawthar
And I have not forgotten from her a glance in separation

28. Though Jesus has been brought near to one distant and concealed
And her farewell to me with a look was a signal

29. So I understood the secret of passion while disguised
And when an open space, riders, and loved ones had left

30. And a company departed and separated
I traveled, and in my sheath a morning for them to be guided

31. And in my eyelids, clouds for them to be rained upon
Until yearning took me towards their encampments

32. So I saw in the land stars flowering
And in the red dome adorned with jewelry

33. Clothed in gowns while beauty itself is redder
I am excused for my longing of the beauty of her face

34. From afar, and the longing near is more excused
And the thirsty can be patient when water is scarce for him

35. But when he sees it, how can he be patient?
I floated to her like the breeze, protecting

36. And guarding her from gossip that spreads
And I uncovered it from her while she was heedless

37. Singing my poems, so she cries and stays up all night
So nothing startled her but the jewels of my tears

38. Laughing in the palm, angry, bejeweled
So between relaxing and tensing she swayed

39. Towards me, and the perfumed cloak leaned
And she said “It is you who have deluded me in passion”

40. So I said “Forgive me, for the lover is deluded”
For that embrace, I risked in traveling

41. And hugged the boughs of the branched tree, trembling
So O gazelle of the palace in whose courtyard

42. There are swimming doves or bared swords
Answer a passionate pilgrim who roamed

43. From a longing for you, while lions around you roar
With a glance from you he sold his soul

44. And what a profitable sale if he finds acceptance
And your people before today have vowed to shed my blood

45. While blood like mine in any case is not to be wasted
And my only intercessor is your love, and if I am

46. Mighty, my humility in you is best and excelling
Grant that I have from the swords of your people a defender

47. For if I die from your eyes, who would take revenge?
So her pleading softened a lover whom if he wished

48. Glory and pride, he would have honor and excellence
And she said “Stay comfortably concealed”

49. “For life is nothing but pleasure and concealment”
So I stay the night while her veil sings to me and I sway

50. Intoxicated, and her eyelids intoxicate me
And I suppressed in the complaint of love some tenderness

51. So I understood the morning breeze telling of it
And it stirred my heart when she got up frightened

52. By the tinkling of her anklet in the early dawn
And she inclined toward farewell while separation was evident

53. From the passion - what union used to conceal
She calms a startled heart with her right hand

54. And wipes with her left tears flowing down
And she said “O beloved of the soul, how the pining pains

55. And most acutely wounds hearts when they part and still show patience”
“Oh, would that I knew after our day of separation

56. Can there be a regathering of kin or is that impossible?”
And she said “May God protect you from every fear”

57. That makes eyes keeping watch for you stay up