1. God has a secret of beauty, you are its meaning
It suffices me, and enough that I yearned for it

2. Who can protect my heart without its protection
From my onlooker, and nestle it from its settling place

3. A gazelle, whose glances entwine my body
I am more gentle than its gentleness in its meaning's subtlety

4. Of sleepy eyelids and shameless face, obscene is he
Empty of mind, from the one he loved at night

5. He smiles a smile, oh how coquettish it is!
Flirtations ramble in it, oh how crafty!

6. Like a rose its dimple, and honey its saliva
And silk its smile, and musk its scent

7. A full moon but the blackness of eyes is its rise
A gazelle but the darkness of heart is its pasture

8. It sways a stature, glory to its Creator
It has been crowned a heavenly garden, blessed is God

9. If not for its bashfulness, I would say eternity is its origin
And that ridwan in paradise fostered it

10. An idol, its Creator formed it of temptations
The most hostile of calamities to man is its sight

11. I seek God's forgiveness, but its slightest features
Are the most delightful the world contains, and most wondrous

12. Oh you garden who has tortured my heart with its bliss
So the bitterness of its foliage is not bitter to me

13. The soul desired that if it obtained its wishes
The most honourable thing for a lover is what it desires

14. Who can give me in my fervour a mouthful of the bashful
As if I was made to drink honey its dimples

15. There crept on his cheek, a scorpion to the sideburns
So it perceived from the fruits of fanciful, ardent love

16. Oh full moon of fortune! It guided my straying soul
And gazelle of distance! It led my heart to its affliction

17. Have mercy on a lover whom love had commanded
With love, he who was ignorant of it, it prohibits him

18. I have unveiled my excuse for you since my excuse appeared
In a spectacle which has inscribed within it excuses

19. Sleep happily, O you who kept me awake
If I ever keep away from you, may God increase me in wakefulness