1. Shafiq was always secluded
In the left side of the temple

2. Thinking of his locked up love
Questioning his heart, it does not speak

3. And the heart is a secret in passion that throbs
So when he saw his crazy passion

4. Ferocious with a bleeding liver
Remaining imploring in the corner

5. He said: Wake up, oh love, from your slumber
The master of sorrows is in your pact

6. He loved even Mary the adulteress
Then he approached her with tears in his eyelids

7. Tears where love tosses in its waves
Like flotsam thrown from its tide

8. So the ferocious one recoiled in her horror
And breaths flared up in her chest

9. As if she were a volcano in its eruption
So he said gently: These are my tears

10. Intercede for me, oh ferocious one, so intercede
I dropped them from my aching heart

11. Their waves carry from my blood
A love story that has not come out of my mouth

12. And has not before fallen on any hearing
In front of this most sacred temple

13. In front of the eyes of the greatest wretch
In front of the candle of the yellow temple

14. And these melting rays
From the fawn's glowing fetus

15. On the marble of the bright altar
In front of my pains, in front of the sorrow

16. In front of this weakness, this illness
And these eyes that did not sleep

17. I lay bare my glowing heart to passion
So the ferocious one muttered, how unfaithful

18. This passion goes on, and regret comes after
And she stared for a while at the lovesick one

19. While her heart in her dark chest
Walks from sorrows in mourning

20. Then she turned her distracted eyes
Away from his sad, crying eyes

21. And sank into an ambiguous dream
So he said: No, no, do not turn away, for misery

22. Wanted, oh ferocious one, for me to be created
To know love and to fall in love

23. So what secret in your darkness was hidden
That your eyes reveal to this image

24. And from my heart has remained locked
And he had just become silent when he fell prostrate

25. The holiness of passion, no one has ever humbled like this
As if in her eyelids is His temple

26. Where he sees the Lord of Golgotha
Opening fresh wounds for love

27. And the ferocious one said: Here is my temple
In your extinguished chest, the ignited one

28. And your eyes drowned in tomorrow's sea
And her eyelids met the altar

29. Upon it was a tail of the light of morning
And the image of the virgin, so he said: Bear witness

30. He said: Bear witness that passion testifies
Oh image of Mary who is worshipped

31. Oh igniter of love that cannot be blamed
Love is fires that light up the sky

32. So it sends light to us whenever
An appointment with God comes to us

33. Rays from the Creator's eyelids
That melt in the ardent livers

34. So it mixes the Creator with the lover
And God did not create the human heart

35. To remain dormant like a stone
So the fire in its throbbing element

36. He said to her: Your heart, how it agonized
Oh God, how cruel, how painful it was

37. Speak, I want to hear it
I want to bend my ribs for it

38. An arc of love, so it stays with me
As long as life remains, and I remain with it

39. I want to spread my eyes out for it
For passion makes the crucifixion easier

40. Passion, oh sister of my soul, is nothing but
The sacrifice of souls, passion is not

41. So the ferocious one muttered: nothing but nonsense
And she left him in a deepening unnamed

42. From one problem tossed to another
Like someone wandering in his long night

43. So he said: Who has revealed this love?
So the nonsense echoed in his hearing

44. And the temple dome returned it