1. They entrusted him with what they entrusted,
So blame him if you wish, or let him be,

2. For from that matter he will not desist,
Nor from that affair will he return.

3. In the riders is a seducer in the meadow,
It has a settlement and a repository,

4. Its arrows in the hands of men protect it,
As well as the white ibex and the wide quiver.

5. Despite me the crow of an-Nuwa croaked at them,
And its gusting wind blew them away.

6. It established my lamentation after them,
And my patience wavered when they wavered.

7. May God water for their sake Al-La'la',
And where, where can Al-La'la' be seen?

8. I revive the meadows and they are my goal,
And if I say "Greetings O meadow!"

9. And formerly it had been inhabited by them,
Yet now after them it is desolate.

10. And in the track of the caravan when they departed,
A young man whose heart is anguished and afflicted.

11. A lover whose affair of passions,
Is towards a state of beauty that is not raised.

12. And a people made passionate love easy for him,
So he became sipping of its roses.

13. They imagined it smooth, but it was rough,
And how skilled in love is one who is deceived!

14. It is death, not an emaciated body,
Nor length of sleeplessness, nor tears.

15. Not the wind blowing, nor lightning
That casts light upon lightning that flashes.

16. So those are the sublime ones of passionate love,
While lower than them in love is my refuge.

17. And my vacant meadow caused me distraction,
And it did not know what my ribs contained.

18. It blames a lover about love, something
From which no limb or place is devoid.

19. So O you who rebukes me, where is one who will shepherd me?
And O you who advises me, where is one who will listen?