1. Between the languor of my two eyelids and kohl,
He has love from every heart he has charmed,

2. He was wary of their deadly glances,
Don't you see how gently those gazelles walk?

3. Oh, what a disaster, those alluring gazelles,
No mind remained sane because of them, only crazy,

4. If Babylon were not in their eyelids,
Their arrows would not have flown from their quiver,

5. Oh you who shoots poisoned arrows,
Your eyes, are they for the one who looks or the blind?

6. And you who frightened me with your glance,
Your eyes preceded the sharp sword,

7. The shedder of my blood is infatuated,
I'm the slain, infatuated with the one who killed me,

8. I noticed from them two cheeks that flowed,
Like the water of youth set ablaze by their embers,

9. Oh, for their thirsty, guaranteed,
If the waist had guaranteed my love, it would have been tied,

10. Oh companion, release from the fetters of sorrow,
When you are released among those ornaments,

11. Ask about my sleep deprived by yearning, where did it go?
And about my heart after it, what did it do?

12. And if your eyes see an empty quarter,
Irrigate their thirst with that rain,

13. And count eyelid to eyelid,
For their gaze is the closest era to an appointed time,

14. And avoid the forbidden fruits of love,
For the branch of enjoyment bears the picker of shame,

15. And if the swaying of his stature eludes you,
Then ask his peers among the rivals,

16. Everything permitted to him is forbidden,
I wish I knew how he made my blood permissible,

17. Beware of seeing my murder as unjust,
For my opponent has no kinship with my tribe,

18. You see if the avenger wants revenge,
Is there protection from the Protector of the Faith?