1. You are a guide to love, so you are worthy of that
You have control, for beauty has given you control

2. And you have command, so judge as you are a judge
For beauty has made you my guardian

3. And avoid conflict, if there is accord
Through you, hasten it - I sacrifice myself for you

4. And in whatever you desire in your love, test me
For my choice is what pleases you

5. So in any case, you are more deserving of me
As I would not exist without you

6. Your love was enough honor for me in my humiliation
And submission - and I cannot match you

7. And when I am honored by joining you
My lineage is honored, sound and protected by you

8. So my accusation of love is enough for me
Among my people I am counted as killed by you

9. For you the living perish and by you the dead live
In the path of passion, perishing is sweet

10. A slave of bondage who was never freed
If you deserted him, nothing else would free him

11. With a beauty you veiled with majesty
He became obsessed and found torment sweet there

12. And when the hope of acceptance drew near
Fear of rejection kept him distant from you

13. So with the insistence of desire when it overwhelms him
With the restraint of awe when he fears you

14. His heart melted, so permit it to wish
For you, and in it is hope of your acceptance

15. Or command slumber to pass my eyelids
And I will obey you like a staff in your hand

16. Perhaps in sleep an apparition of you will appear
And whisper a secret to me, your beloved

17. And if you do not revive with the spirit of wishing
My glance, and my death requires your existence

18. Passion made wakefulness at night a habit for my eyes
So they stayed open without seeing you

19. Blessed is the night in which I lost sleep because of you
While sleep was a gift for me from you

20. The full moon appeared to my eyes in your image
When I was awake, picturing you

21. So I saw you in only yourself through an eye
That rested on you and saw none but you

22. And so did the beloved turn his gaze before me
When he observed the cosmos

23. The dark night is radiance for us through you
Where you gifted me guidance from your brilliance

24. And when you are absent from my sight
I find you inclined towards my essence

25. O people of the full moon, a caravan you roamed by night
Through it, no, it roamed by day in your brightness

26. And the extraction of lights from my exterior
Is not strange, and my interior is your dwelling

27. Musk exudes fragrance wherever my name is mentioned
Since you called me, I kiss, so kiss me

28. And perfume wafts in every gathering
A mention that expresses your fragrance

29. The beauty of all things was manifest in me, it attached itself to me
I said my intention is only you

30. I have a beloved in whom I see meaning
Dazzling others, and in whom I see only you

31. If he turns to souls he enslaves ascetics
Or appears, he enslaves sacrificers

32. Through him I replaced guidance with misguidance
And my direction with misdirection and my veil with rupture

33. The heart singularized its love, so my devotion
To you is idolatry, and I do not see anyone as Your partner

34. O brother of reproach, whom beauty has obsessed like me
And ardently loves, through it you negated your brother

35. If you saw the one whose beauty has captivated me
You would never see anything that captivates like it

36. And when it appeared to me, I forgave my negligence
And said to my eyes, “This is like that”

37. How can I become bored of you, when my eyes
Turn to you every time a glimpse appears

38. However much you spurn me, may you have mercy
Even by listening to my words, I hope for your mercy

39.
The slanderers have vilified you by my abandonment

40. And spread that I have become bored of your love
I did not love what is in their interiors, so I would

41. Become bored of you - let them spurn, God forbid
How can I become bored when my eyes

42. Turn to glimpse you every time they are moistened
If you smile under the veil’s shade

43. Or I scent the breeze from your breath
My soul delights when a glimpse of your cheeks appears

44. To my eyes and the fragrance of your perfume wafts
All those under your protection love you

45. But I alone love all those under your protection
You have meaning that manifests you in the eye of my intellect

46. And through it my onlooker finds meaning in your manifestation
You surpassed the beautiful in beauty and charm

47. So through them you have need of your meaning
The lovers will be mustered under my banner

48. And all the reproachers under your banner
Scarcity did not distract me from you, so what

49. Has distracted you from me, O beautiful guide
Through your distance from me you have nearness to me

50. And affection that I found in your remoteness
Longing taught my eyes to stay awake at night

51. So they remained sleepless without seeing you
Blessed is the night in which I resisted sleep for you

52. And sleep was gifted to me by you
The brilliant full moon took the form of your apparition

53. For my eye in my wakefulness when it recalled you
So I saw you in only yourself through an eye

54. That rested on you and saw none but you
And so did the beloved turn his gaze before me

55. When he observed the heavens
So for us the dark night is illuminated by you

56. Where you have guided me with your brilliance
And when you are absent from my sight

57. I find you inclined towards my essence
Glad tidings to me if kindness comes from you

58. And I am in your grasp, I say take me
What has passed is enough bloodshed from my eyes for you

59. Has what suffices you flowed from the wounds you inflicted
So allow some tranquility from your torment in you

60. Before passion comes to know its beloved
Alas! The ignorant prohibited him from you in ignorance