1. By God, by God, let me be with you, by God
By God, I was not heedless of this matter

2. You forbid love, o deterrer, and order intimacy
Go ahead, o deterring commander

3. Ah, longing is of no benefit
Ah, though the ardent one sighs more

4. The fires of my heart and the waters of my eyes together
Are not to be measured with fires and waters

5. Alas, alas that I should forget the love of a moon-like face
The time has smiled upon it, deterring

6. My heart sings the glory of his love
Like a chewed morsel melted in flaming wind

7. How much sweet saliva I have tasted from it, sipping
Whose taste I did not find in the saliva of mouths

8. And a dreary, deserted valley I crossed furtively
With a swift she-camel, wandering in travel and love

9. It walked on, and before it the best camels of Humayr, since
The pillar of success was not with it, distracted

10. Awake to record praise, vigilant
Not the sleeping empty one, nor the forgetful

11. An ink that speaks what pleases God, and you will
Not see it avoiding the companions in their gatherings

12. Abode after abode, and no king rivals him
In glory, too great for Abode and for King

13. If a human resembles him in creation
He is still superior in mind to a peer or the like

14. Leadership in protected sanctuary, generous and
Extravagant in ritual purification

15. O you who alone acts beautifully, you whose
Ranks now rise above all glory

16. I thank you for what I have witnessed
Of what you have granted me of wealth and glory