1. My excuse, from a garden that I love
I've never desired a garden that pulled me like love before

2. He blames me for estrangement, yet estrangement is his religion
Reconciliation would have been sweet if his reproach were gentler

3. I tread the path of union though he is most beloved
If any fault lies between us, it's his to bear

4. You have inflicted wounds from your abandonment, oh Abul
Hussein, arrows no heart can withstand

5. I'm reminded of what pleased the slanderers and accusations
against my vows and words about me - the easiest becoming most difficult

6. And censure, even if no other suitor had come asking for me
In return from me, indeed, proposing would have been easy

7. And how many men have I made drink cups whose bitter waters
Were vengeance I poured in my mouth though tasting sweet

8. With what loyalty have you left me? I'm deprived of my love
And one like me finds no comfort, while men on earth still hope

9. Scrutinize the virtuous and the wicked, and with your heart
Single me out, when companionship is cast aside

10. Let no doubt seize your certainty, else you will waver
For the wrathful, solemn blade does not falter

11. I'm safe from enviers in you, for when enabled
To ignite their fitnah, they blaze

12. Neither in their injustice have the nights extinguished from you
An opinion that once sparked the heart