1. The youth said to the youth: As long as you love her
Make her your devoted, caring wife

2. He said: No, for marriage is nothing but
A shackle that imprisons my heart's passion for a woman

3. How many offspring have I sired who were then born
I still play joyfully in the world of beauty and in

4. A different girl each day who flows with generosity
And I have, from pleasure, a night named after me

5. We said: Do you boast of adultery happily?!
He said: No, that became a followed law

6. We said: Do you not fear God taking vengeance?
Alas for youth when the devil tempts them

7. And you see no light but in her cheek
And be, in your love for her, her supporter and protector

8. Passions and shackles I do not approve of
My cheek will remain mortgaged to her cheek

9. Misery accompanies it and misfortune overwhelms it
Wives who lived weeping and moaning

10. Of union abundant, she narrated and told
In the company of a cup I give her drink and am given drink

11. Do you toy with honors pointlessly?
How many before me have gone astray by it and how many vaunt

12. He said bluntly: I do not know God
Upon reason so he confused it and nullified it