1. I lit a fire with tears from my eyes in the darkness
So that my beloved's spirit may find its way to me wherever it went

2. And how can I expect his spirit to find me when
I know that fate has fled from my eyelids

3. Oh friends, how much war I suffer after you
If crying out could benefit me, I would have cried out and rebelled

4. You ignited in my heart's core a fire of yearning
That cannot be extinguished with the tears it created

5. Oh how my heart pants, though its panting is futile
When the heat of passion and yearning flares up

6. Why did you not have mercy on a lovesick one who found no rest with you
Until he passed away having fulfilled what was destined?

7. A youth concealed himself from his tormentors out of illness
And it is he who has been veiled by the rising of passion and burning desire

8. Whenever a voice called out loudly in the meadow
He either complained, wept, sighed, or was disturbed

9. His apparition came to me in weakness, so I lacked
The existence of fate with tears that have been veiled

10. If longing torments my heart in you in vain
Then that is a blissful paradise whose return is sweet

11. Or if love robs me of some of me, and all of me belongs to it
Then the most noble part of me that was stolen

12. I entrust God with patience, though attaining it is difficult
And patience is the most difficult attainment when sought