1. We loved you not because you are female
To fulfill his lustful urges

2. Nor are you the only one with charm
That we'd say none can match you

3. Rather we obeyed passion's call
For you combined the subtlest meanings

4. So youthful zeal gained wisdom
As guidance dictates the reins

5. And the impulsive soul aflame with desire
Is calmed by a wish for chastity

6. You've a mind unlike other minds
And a soul beyond mere tendencies

7. So the perfection of traits in you
Meet with the glory of beauty

8. My eyes never saw before you a female
Graced with kindness and benevolence

9. Whenever your tears flow unrestrained
My shattered heart melts away

10. Truly my heart and your teardrop
Are some prices passion demands

11. Affection bears fruit when souls commune
Not from the meeting of bodies

12. I lived my whole life feeling estranged
Among friends and brethren

13. And oddly I don't forget mentioning you
Daily except for moments

14. You are my companion though far
And confidante wherever I am

15. Thoughts of you like a sweet medicine
Cure me after prolonged illness

16. O people, my excuse for loving a girl
As beautiful as the finest of youths

17. For she has feminine tenderness in love
And in glory a young man's zeal

18. Her lips are shy to meet lips
Out of modesty and seeking propriety

19. And if youthful vitality were to weaken
She'd be toppled by the madness of infatuation

20. She refuses with gentleness and modesty
While her coquetry melts my being

21. Then she finds peace remembering the separation
And rests herself in my embrace

22. From her perfect chastity she has a shield
That protects her, and my faith protects me

23. She enchants the heart with talk, her prohibition
In speech like the finest melodies

24. Whenever her yearning intensifies
She entreats me with her eyes, not her tongue

25. Glances that reveal the bitterness of patience
And convey to my thoughts her agony

26. Thus stirring the passions within me
And through them my weakness multiplies

27. The two lips in painful longing
Utter words relished by both

28. While she recoils when they meet
Then rests when they part

29. I stood awe-struck by her bashfulness
Torn between refusal and acquiescence

30. In a shocking stance, her soul struggles
With passions raging like fires

31. Passion has shown me paradoxically
Two opposites coexist within a soul

32. By every embrace two spirits
Nearly took flight into the sky

33. Yet after our eyes meet sincerely
And true love and unrestrained affection grow

34. Then, by God, settling down and temptation
And true love and unrestrained affection

35. My craze for beauty was like people's
Craving for yellow metals

36. And a soul delights my own
With bonds of affection between them

37. So let me, O people, delight in beauty
Blissfully heedless of time

38. God's and nature's aim in creation
Is perfection of souls and bodies

39. For only love populates the worlds
And in beauty lies joy of the cosmos