1. Oh how my soul yearns for the beloved
And hopes for their relief, the remedy of remedies

2. The torment of the healer does not heal them
Nor does the attentive care of the devoted

3. Their needs are not fulfilled, nor
Does a loving soul benefit them

4. No joy has visited them, nor
Have their sorrows been hidden

5. Longing for a house, though
Its dwellers are severed companions

6. Paths leading to ruin guide them
Well-trodden routes towards it

7. A strange home, though its good
And evil you see interwoven

8. Has wounded, while its cure
Escapes each aching soul

9. The love of its people has described it
To the fiercely hostile as beloved

10. They slept through its cries
Seized by overwhelming adversity

11. How it deceived many with its sweetness
Except for the resolute amongst them

12. So they rushed into its honey
And perished like moths

13. Nothing makes man intimate but the
Deceptive world, which entraps those led astray

14. Becoming his enemy at dawn
While he counts it as mother and beloved

15. Oh how my soul yearns for the beloved
If only the longing would heal the most ardent beloved