1. Beauty shone from your cheeks like a crescent moon
It filled the universe with joy and beauty

2. Whenever the branch of your kindness leaned towards us
We all leaned towards it, enraptured

3. O beloved! Honor has forbidden our union
We have made blood lawful for your sake

4. How often we beseech you saying "help us!"
With intimacy, and how often you replied with aloofness

5. Have mercy on those who are humble, for their hearts
Are like birds, and their bodies have become like apparitions

6. You were gentle like shadows, and like wonders, the sea
Was like shadows upon which shadows depend

7. Do not abandon us to estrangement, for we
Have cut off all hopes other than you

8. And rectify our state with acceptance
For it will undoubtedly improve conditions

9. We did not mention you, by your truth, except
While tears poured like rain

10. And you see us sway like branches
Swayed by the wind left and right

11. Do not see our flaws, for your pardon is vast
So pardon completely, do not gloat over the sinner

12. With humility towards us and sincere humility
Clothe the heart with its violence in submission

13. Be gentle with us in beauty and have mercy on us
For we are exhausted from bearing your majesty