1. My beloved, if not for love and love loving me
I wouldn't have been renowned in the world of love

2. And my eyes wouldn't have shed in love a tear
And I wouldn't have been one day a lover of lovers

3. And I wouldn't have been in the whirlpool of joy and passion
With events surrounding me busying me with worries

4. My beloved, if not for you, passion wouldn't have fatigued me
And I wouldn't have had a heart falling in love

5. And the doors of my heart wouldn't have been knocked by yearnings
And my eyes wouldn't have kept crying

6. For if your image disappears from my eyes
Your imagination in my inner self remains

7. You were in your world a witness and evidence
To whoever willingly loves you in love

8. So relieve a heart challenged by a stubborn one
And torn by passion and became hostile

9. And I'm not to blame if I gave away my queen
My life, for that is but some of my loyalty

10. So she said, may God protect you from the blow of fate
Do not complain to me for you are my demise

11. If I were able, I would've come to you at dawn
To a sight with the returning travelers

12. But by God I am, as He knows,
A captive of love hidden in the heart

13. So think not distance a kind of estrangement
If this were true, I wouldn't have uncovered my secret

14. My reproach of you is in my poetry and your poetry saying
Perhaps and when will I attain my wishes and hopes

15. So be reassured and sip the honey from my mouth
For you are my life, O life of my union