1. Tell the one who desires our separation
With the rope of my love, how can he do that?

2. Woe to his mother! If only she understood
Its meaning or if only the mind could work

3. Did she wish to anger me or want our separation?
No, it’s towards me so I accept

4. I believe, so pray to God to reunite us
With a strongly knotted rope that won't unravel

5. We love each other and are given freely what He bestows
If only for us it would last until the star disperses

6. I'm not a person whose words since living
Were for us the night of al-Bat'ha and tears that flow

7. So my soul is content while you are worried
Indeed, praise be to God, it has become confused

8. I see you equating me with one who is not my equal
Yet protection has its people and youth its abode

9. If you were a youth like me, you would obey
But I am serious and you jest

10. So I said to her words of a cautious man
Who deliberately endures though inclined to reconcile

11. Reveal to me whether this avoidance
Is to avoid harm, for clarity is better

12. And if it’s denial of something you hated
Then I repent, completely turning away

13. You knew when you distanced me to avoid
You ransomed my soul for one you rely on

14. Congratulations to a heart I thought
If it willed, it would ask about or change you

15. So die suppressed, O heart, or live, for indeed
I see you entrusted to the miserly and stingy