1. I think if you knew the extent of my love
You would not have tortured my heart with estrangement

2. And if you saw me crying from passion
With tears in which the remoteness of my beloved mingles

3. I would have wept for what I suffer and that is enough for me
That you weep for what you have inflicted, that is enough for me

4. O slender gazelle who lent beauty to the neck
Whose charm shows through every herd

5. You have appointed my eyes to wakefulness
And to shedding tears since you created my affection

6. If passion is no sin, nor can I refrain from it
If my sin to you persists, then let my sin persist

7. I swear if estrangement from you continues, I will endure it
And if my love does not draw near to it, I will draw near my love

8. And how much hope I have in you that shows me
The place of my pleasures after impending reprimand