1. He sang more beautifully than the ones who adored him,
My heart guided me to his gentle companions.

2. He is an intercessor on the day of agony, I made an offering of him,
Gratitude for love excuses me from his friends.

3. He consoled me about all those I used to love,
And I preferred him above all his peers.

4. In love, what I experience with him changes me;
I wish I could discard all his attributes.

5. How many encampments where the lightning stayed did he reside
Where passion did not fulfill its reward?

6. Will I see the beloved with valor able
To bargain me for honor, then dust?

7. The gazelles were delighted when they saw him
Between the sands of Al-Aj and Farhah.

8. And he adorned the cheek of separation with his line,
That did not pay attention when he adorned it.

9. And a heart whose love has doubled flirted with him
With the coldness of its flirtation to respond.

10. If you aspire for his love then lose him,
The lion cannot be tempted with his absence.

11. My eyesight and hearing in love are seeking him
In vain, like his pursuers sought his blood.

12. And after his departure, my heart bought with him
A bitter patience between the cup of his drink.

13. And he harvested the ripe fruits of youth,
Pouring pain on his home and his family.

14. Of wonders, an abode I visit with him
And melt of thirst, but am not sated with him.