1. Ask the guardians of the garden of beauty
And the rangers of that chaste land

2. Who adorned the branch with the crescent moon
And grew roses in the meadows

3. Which bees buzzed around the spring of melody
And which gentle rain showered from the clouds

4. And which water and which fire
Were brought together by the grace of youth

5. Say: a pure watering place
Guarded by lips like daggers

6. Say: gardens and say: zafra lilies
Scattered with musk and ambergris

7. Who will be mine though death is delusion
And the grinning lion bares its teeth

8. The light from his cheek illuminates
My heart though I have no ally

9. Oh soul, to meet him I have no choice
Nor any power to take him by force

10. For his eyelids have shed tears
So how can I escape their spell?

11. Oh my heart afflicted by his love
Oh my eyes weeping without end

12. With a cruel beloved who stays close
Even his phantom makes me yearn

13. Patience with his abandonment and blame
For what will be, will be

14. Maybe kindness from a union
Will free me from his disdain

15. Or the nights will bring about
Release from those shackles

16. And a friend said: Oh stranger
You have been excessive in your grief and sorrow

17. A man has a share of tears
And the soul - it has no price

18. Woe to you - no life will be sweet
No comrades and no peace

19. Then leave me to weep copiously
For tears need a resting place

20. And cry with me in pity for my state
The weeping of one exiled from home

21. I made the garb of love my banner
And wandered in its wintry wind

22. I have a beloved, supple and tall
I would ransom him with my soul

23. I sang softly as he passed
Fearing the listening spy

24. Muhammad Linaq, O my gazelle
O you of the large eyes

25. You plucked my heart and did not care
You have no shame in this, my love