1. My heart whispers that you are my darling
My soul is yours, did you know or were you unaware?

2. I have not fulfilled your love if I was the one
Who did not suffer in it, and who like me would fulfill?

3. I have nothing but my soul that I sacrifice
For the love of the one I adore, I am no spendthrift

4. So if you are pleased with it, you have aided me
Oh what disappointment if you do not aid

5. Oh you who deprive me of the sweetness of sleep
And grant me the garment of sickness through agony and grief

6. Have mercy on my fading life-force and what
Remains of my suffering body and cloven heart

7. For the passion remains and the union evades
And patience expires while the meeting is delayed

8. I have not been devoid of jealousy over you so do not
Undermine my vigil by disturbing imaginations

9. And ask the stars of the night if sadness
Has visited my eyelids and how can one visit who does not know?

10. If their eyes were stingy in blinking for me
And my eyes poured with flowing tears

11. And from what transpired in the stance of farewell
From the sorrow of parting I saw the horror of the situation

12. If there is no union for you then renew for me
My hopes with it and procrastinate if you promise but do not fulfill

13. For your delay from me, if faithfulness is dear
Is as sweet as the union from a helpful beloved

14. I sigh for the breaths of the breeze complaining
And for the face of the one whose fragrance it conveyed in yearning

15. Perhaps the fire of my wings from its blowing
May extinguish though I wish it does not extinguish

16. Oh people of my affection you are my hope and whoever
Called upon you, oh people of my affection, it is enough

17. Return to what you used to be in loyalty
Out of nobility for I am that sincere friend

18. By your lives, by your lives I swear and by
My life without your lives I have not sworn

19. If my soul was in my hand and I gifted it
To the bearer of news of your coming I would not be equitable

20. Do not think me pretentious in love
I have a nature with you without affectation

21. I concealed my love for you so it hid sorrow
From me that truly I almost hid from myself

22. And I withheld it from myself so had I expressed it
I would have found it more hidden than the subtle concealment

23. And I say to whoever dares love
You have exposed yourself to affliction so take heed

24. You are the slain by whoever you have loved
So choose for yourself in love whom you select

25. Say to the blamer, you prolonged blaming me greedily
Blame is halted for the lover and halted for me

26. Leave your rebuke of me and taste the flavor of love
For when you fall in love, after that you may rebuke

27. Passion for the one who is pleased even if
He has not been affectionate to me, he has not been kind

28. Love conquered so I obeyed my youthful folly
Wherein I disobeyed the reproach of a reprimander

29. From me is the submission and from him to me
Is the honor of refusal and power of the weak

30. He grew accustomed to rejection while my heart has never
Since I was not his beloved, grown accustomed

31. Oh how twisted is all that he is pleased with
And his pleasure, oh how it twists it crookedly

32. If they heard Jacob mention fleckedness
In his face he forgot Joseph's beauty

33. Or if Job saw him returning in
The years of hardship, his feet cured of affliction

34. All the full moons when he appears approaching
Yearn for him and every slender figure sways

35. If I say, “In you is every youthfulness”
Grace says to me, “And all beauty is in him”

36. His perfections were completed so if eclipse
Gifted a garment to the full moon in its perfection, it would not be eclipsed

37. And describing his beauty makes
Lifetimes pass while it has not been described

38. And I have set all my passion for him
Through his beauty so I praise my excellent arrangement

39. For the eye desires the image of beauty which
My soul aspires to, an unseen delight

40. Make my brother happy and sing to me his words
And strew upon my hearing his flirtations and be tender

41. That I may see with the eye of hearing a witness of his beauty
An essence so adorn me with that and ennoble me

42. Oh sister of Sa’d, from my beloved you came to me
With a message you conveyed with tenderness

43. So I heard what you did not hear and saw what
You did not see and knew what you did not know

44. If one day he visits, oh my imagination, shatter
Infatuated with him or if he travels, oh my eye, weep

45. Absence is not guilty and the one I love with me
If he is absent from the human of my eye then he is in me