1. Ask the heart about its love, striving
Is there in it you will find except burning

2. The nights folded it and they left
A legacy of worry and regret

3. For a pleasure whose time did not last long
My sorrow made it last long

4. For a pleasure whose taste for me
Was a blend of sadness and pleasure

5. Indeed my misery has been so long so tell me when
Will I, my hope, bid farewell to my woe

6. Indeed my night has been so long so tell me when
Will I bid farewell to my last night

7. And my night is not a period of darkness
Rather it is a period of agony

8. So oh Lord until this time
My separation is marred with tears

9. I did not know the fate, would that I
Had for this purpose prepared myself

10. So oh longing that tore my heart so what
Is my remaining after it my wish

11. And oh my beloved it was with your help
God for the distance oh my beloved

12. I was patient and what else my strategy
With the difficult fate what else my strategy