1. Ask the people of passion what they did
Did they stay after us or did they depart?

2. If they departed from my sight
Then in the folds of my heart they descended

3. May God lengthen your life when you come to them
And you see those ruins

4. Say to them, by God, from me that I
Am true to their covenant if they ask

5. What secret is in my heart for them
Other than one the messengers cannot be trusted with

6. Describe my state to them and elaborate
Perhaps they will know what they did not know

7. And omit mentioning my blood to them
Those they killed cannot be compensated among them

8. How much passion they stirred in my soul
When they said, ask, I said, ask

9. Everything I received from them
With acceptance they severed or connected

10. Oh how many sighs of passion I emit
Sighs that are followed by more

11. Oh what is between me and the causes of passion
That do not detach themselves from me

12. By my father, he who if he smiles or delights
The full moons are bashful and the crescents weak

13. The sun is jealous of his brilliance when he appears
And the full moon sinks down

14. His eyes have enchanted my heart and only
The enchanting can entrance minds

15. How can I conceal my love for him
When he is the paragon of lovers

16. Can any chider detach me from loving him
If his rebuke is prolonged?

17. No, and whoever silenced me from his rebuke
That is ingrained; I do not change course