1. With the right company of dune travelers, tents
Are sacrosanct to us and inviolable

2. I yearn for them every day and night
Though my heart is silent towards them

3. To those I love and intend closeness
There is a place in my ribs, a special place

4. I have a strange state among lovers
My heart is broken but tears flow

5. O critic, you are not just at all
Should I keep an old covenant and blame myself?

6. Save me from the rebuke that stirred my passion
For I see that forbearance is forbidden

7. If you had wept as I did, you'd excuse a lover
Whose enemies are separation and passion itself

8. I recall nights at Suluq and Hajar
Days of nearness when wine flowed

9. Intimate wine, not wine of the vine
I drink the noble daughter of vineyards

10. When the zephyrs of union revived our hearts
As we kept vigil while foes slept

11. O she whose doves recalled to a heart
Days of union whose dawn was their fast

12. O beloveds of my heart, my heart is your dwelling
And a noble's guest should never be wronged

13. Ask a heart that did not ask, but forgot
Pierced as it was by the bow of parting

14. In the camp, when you left it was desolate
As a vacant scabbard when the sword is gone

15. Peace be upon you, how sweet was your company
And the utmost effort of the weary is rest