1. Who is this watcher with piercing eyes
My heart is seared and broken

2. He still tracks my every step
I thought him a fortune-teller

3. As if, my friend, blindness
Had struck his eyes

4. He lingers like a doorman
In that stance, lying in wait

5. Like a specter, shadowing me
Flowing around me, wherever I go

6. When I enter as a Muslim
Greeting and announcing my faith

7. Like fog, he meets
Light with darkest night

8. His glances upon meeting
Like arrows loosed, fly straight

9. Oh what misfortune that
He's like hell in my paradise

10. His anger won't abate
My qualms and fears multiply

11. Like a gazelle in the grip
Of a hunter, completely overpowered

12. She hides her love, her gaze
To secrecy her home confined

13. Since I met him, he steals
The moments, now a criminal

14. He forbade pleasures, so how can I
Not melt from the pain

15. And his words are sweet, so for me
They replace wine's intoxication

16. My eyes indulge in splendor
My heart pounds with passion

17. A heart struck by her love
Like a bird ensnared, flung itself

18. A cheek adorned by her beauty
With charm, wherever it shines

19. An angel generous on earth
Lost from the paths of the heavens

20. Beauty itself traced to her essence
So proudly she boast of her graces

21. Melter of hearts and livers
In the heat of love, broken

22. Have mercy on your love-sick one
Who humbly seeks audience

23. Struck down by bolt of passion
To you he comes to surrender

24. In your radiant face he sees
The smile of favor, promise

25. And on your shining brow
He sees hope budding

26. Turn your gaze to a lad
Who before your arrows, falls mute

27. Spare your daggers for he who offends
And grant union, in grace