1. Do you not know, O Alto, that I suffer
from loving you, and now to people it is brought

2. And I used to cry for you while you were in Yathrib
And my wish was from the land, Yathrib

3. I hoped for you until when you returned
Some aloofness from you came and avoidance

4. So I have become from what was between me and you
I tell whoever I meet and they are amazed

5. So if my affliction with troubles is bad to you, then have mercy
And if this torment makes you happy, then torment me

6. And people have told me, endure their guidance
Thus every friend will be pleased and angered

7. And I am burning without you so know
And your stinginess in my chest is most pleasing and sweet

8. And I see from the women of your house
They kindled for us in people a blazing fire

9. They knew of our love so they became envied
They tell whoever comes and goes about us

10. And God has tested me with a servant from you
Who tells me the news from you and lies

11. And if short one were to hurry between us
I would be happy and attain what I was seeking

12. And many things have appeared from you
And I was not expecting the like of them from you

13. And before I had not tried the news of a beautiful woman
And none knows the news except the experienced

14. And I have a story the day I bid farewell at the funeral
The next morning the full moon that was veiled appeared

15. When I see the Hashimite woman coming
Swaying around her from the eye many glances

16. I gestured to her with fingers so she turned away
Smiling for a bit then became stern and frowning

17. So I have not seen a day that was more beautiful in sight
While we were standing and she came nearer and nearer

18. If Alto knew what was between us
She would have some of what I was fearing

19. May God make every free woman a ransom
For Alto, the beloved, I am indeed tortured for her

20. Apart from her, my heart has no desire among people
And after her, my heart has no refuge among people

21. So if after us Alto has changed
And the rest of her rope remains fraying

22. And she forgot the pact that was between us
And went to other than what I was thinking

23. And what I suffer seems lowly to her, so perhaps
Afflictions and hearts fluctuate

24. But I, by the Creator, Shaper,
Whose Ancient House, veiled, is visited

25. I will persist in love as long as the sun rises
As long as a star appears and sets

26. And I will cry for Alto with a burning eye
And if she becomes indifferent to us, still we will yearn

27. And if from sunrise to sunset I possessed
Surrounding it a kingdom, by your life, with the girl I am fascinated