1. Oh you, when an unworthy one turns away
Don't you see how your lover has fared?

2. He was a moon, lighting the dark nights
And a sun, radiating amid the days

3. My life for you! I never compared you to a flexing branch
Nor your cheek to a burning coal

4. How could I when you are the source of all beauty?
When counted, you are its destination

5. Beauty is not complete unless
It borrows some of your beauty

6. Your creation was a copy in a tablet
Chosen by its Maker discerningly

7. So how can our hearts bear patience from you
When you were created for us today?

8. For he who you spurn will not hope for life
And he who you befriend will fear no shame

9. Through love of you, your lover is exalted
Boasting over lovers boastfully

10. When they taunt me about you, they say
Your beloved neither visits nor can be visited

11. I said to them, I am content with him as my beloved
By his life! He has never tasted shame