1. O friend, affliction has grown and become prolonged
And after you I have become more passionate and lost

2. I have been burdened by one whom I dare not name
A heavy weight as if mountains weigh upon me

3. What have I endured of love and its sickness
Therein lies the greatness of our Lord

4. O you who are uniquely beautiful, do you not see
My eyes upon none but you find beauty

5. I have invoked you frequently in my poetry
And made examples for you in my verses

6. Yet you refused except disdain and aloofness
And refused except passion and misguidance

7. By God, speak truth if I asked you
Did you find my murder legal in the Book

8. Or not, so why did you spurn and oppress me
And make me degraded amongst all people

9. How many blamers, if I heard what they say
Would blame me, forbid me, rebuke and speak

10. I trusted in the days and their vicissitudes
When I held fast to the ropes of the Prince

11. If people could from his veneration
They would don shoes of gold in respect of him

12. This generosity was not so, until you were
A life, and if one day you would slip, you would stumble

13. Verily the steeds complain of you
For to you they have galloped over soft sands

14. When they bring us to you they come lightly
And when they take us back they come heavily