1. I have no more patience or secrecy
No, nor faith or belief

2. I ask Allah the Almighty for forgiveness for my transgression
I have had enough, so my tongue grew long

3. I have gone mad, so I have no cunning with destiny
No outrage to be resolved, nor authority

4. Enough of your swords, and be gentle with my madness
I have no endurance, I am but a human

5. The slumberous fire of your coquettish eyes still smolders in my heart
And your deadly figure robs my mind

6. Your beautiful face bewilders my reason
The years pass, yet my torment remains steady

7. Before my face, and harm comes in many forms
Look, everything in the wilderness passes away

8. But my matter has no resolution
Damascus the beautiful has been restored by grace

9. After tribulations, and Lebanon has flourished
While I, due to your displeasure, suffer constant affliction

10. Sorrows and laments have increased
The Nile revived the land of Egypt with its generosity

11. Flooding over its meadows
And faithfulness fulfilled for every downpour

12. While I, I am the thirsty one
The unruly knights of the defiant black mountain

13. They have left wars and surrendered
They left obstinacy and corruption and yielded

14. Yet the defiance of your mind has no acquiescence
And in green Tunisia, hatred has died down

15. After storms, and rebellion has faded
While in the chest of this friend, separation

16. Stirs up violent storms of love
And the Circassian heroes, after their exodus

17. They migrated, so the Sultan protected them
They found a homeland in the expanse of his realm

18. And kindness began to flow upon them
But with your stinginess, you still torment

19. Anyone who sought your generosity was deprived
So I, due to your estrangement, suffer constant exile

20. A refugee, with no place for me in the lands
I have nothing but the New World, resembling

21. The permanence of your war, as times cycle
They exhausted iron on bodies, yet afterwards

22. Which bodies in wars can endure?
And the arrows of your glance cannot be reached by oblivion

23. They rained down, so I said: passing affliction
I have no positions in the North that require

24. A replacement, nor any place for me in the South
You have in the East a rising light

25. By it I find guidance, and the lost gain assistance
In the East, no injustice or aggression

26. So be gentle out of kindness with your enamored one who has shed
Glory, and was struck by passion

27. The flirtation went on, so be firm in your affection
And bring union, so sorrows may cease

28. What is it to you, if you would permit a brief visit
And a drink, by which the obsessed would live?

29. Do not fear the proximity of your people, and draw near me
The time is clear, and the place a garden

30. Why this aloofness and aversion along with estrangement
Unjustly, when we are intimate brothers?

31. Perhaps its shedding will extinguish the fires
Or cool my fervor with water from your lips

32. So by your consent, I attain tranquility
Do not reject my offered heart, for it is

33. For the sake of your beauty, a sacrifice in the high place
I swear by your kindness, I am no traitor