1. You are the dearest of people, you who I entrust
When in need they are weak, and when they love they are humiliated

2. Life seems short as I live it hungry
While my family around me is hungry and thirsty

3. I cannot find provisions unless
With my own hands I earn the price

4. It is easier than having you turn away
And fires burn within my chest

5. I cannot exceed the propriety that rejects passion
When one human enslaves another in love

6. For I am from a people that are harsh when harsh
And tender when the clan is tender to them

7. We are both but dust, so lighten up
On arrogance, for in love there is no slave or sultan

8. Grant me that you are the heavenly soul embodied
Yours is eternity, a cradle, and the angels are brothers

9. So king, son of angels, cast a glance
At me without disdain, for I am no devil