1. When a young man inclines towards darkness one day
He has no insight or guidance left

2. He craves an ugly dark-skinned woman as if she were tar
He makes her skin his cover though it is but darkness

3. The dark woman is naught but a furnace
And a brazier, coal, or ink

4. The fair woman is naught but the radiant sun
Which illuminates the eye and heart

5. A bracelet of silver adorned with roses
Brings joy in slumber and in wakefulness

6. Between the fair and the dark skinned there is a difference
Clear to one of reason and discernment

7. The faces of the faithful have a whiteness
While the faces of the faithless are darkened