1. It is truly my right to always think of you,
I cannot forget our love or forsake it.

2. My eyes are forbidden to see any beauty but yours,
Or my hearing to find any voice sweet but yours.

3. I loved you as a child, and dreamed of you as a youth,
I have spent my life loving you, and now I am old.

4. Life would not be worth living without
The sweet nights of patience, far from your home.

5. May God guard a heart that holds you in its depths,
And give rest to my eyes.

6. Lovers have always followed the ways of passion,
Parted by distances, united in spirit.

7. My heart suffers the pangs of those pained by love,
My glances and pupils speak to it.

8. He who loves the fair-faced gazelles knows for certain
That when joined, hearts are sundered.

9. Alas! Arrows of separation have struck my heart
Until their tips met within.

10. It is as though the blows of fate
Are hurled at me while events have their own course.