1. Why is your yearning apparent, you do not conceal it
Do you have a rightful claim that has not been fulfilled

2. Or have you inclined towards the valley of gazelles’ Lord
So the pangs of love befell you as a sign of its demise

3. Or did you recall the antelope of your love
In the witnessing of the valley’s gazelles and rocky trails

4. A thing is usual in seeing its like
In appearance and mentioned in a glance of familiarity

5. O my friend, yes, I recalled the antelope
So it stirred the love I did not conceal

6. And aroused my sorrows with a shining radiance
That appeared from the direction of the antelope, even its horizon

7. Sometimes lasting like my breaths and other times
Appearing then the clouds would hide it with its folds

8. And the wind would ignite it with what
It has carried from me, and the rain would extinguish it with its palm

9. And in my love the gazelle hunts with its neck
Lions besides the gracefulness of its glance

10. And in me, the one who sings its slender waist
Neglecting his spear and his sword its sheath

11. It surpassed the full moon in its revolution
So the night of its half looked on in admiration

12. A branch made delicate by the winds of its charm
Lost yet steady in the composure of its poise

13. A body of smooth silk, upright is its shape
But the describer was confused in describing it

14. It is the elixir of beauty, the chemistry of charm
The treasure of splendor in beauty and its subtlety

15. The king of hearts with the nobility of its gaze
So its witnesses are in its cheeks and palm

16. As if my heart’s magnet was its very essence
Capturing it with its pull and push

17. My heart has fled to it and it has become
Between its affection and the field of its prowess

18. No, by Him who enabled its difficult leading
And humiliated my determination with its gaze and compassion

19. I have not averted the ways of love unwillingly
Disliking the injustice and unfairness of estrangement

20. No, and the idea of indifference has not occurred to a mind
Which has its shape present in its interior

21. How can there be indifference while my love is placed
Hostage to the glance upon the plains of its rock

22. Even if I were to drink indifference I would not be indifferent
And if my heart entered the Euphrates it would not extinguish it

23. In Yusuf’s beauty it has appeared brilliantly
And in Ya’qub’s sorrow I have become and his weakness

24. So who brings the good tidings of his return and coming
Back to me and who will bring the sorrowful one with his remedy

25. O full moon, if the land has become narrow and you could not
Manage union then visit me in the dream and its ghosts

26. The gazelles do not stroke the eye like this, no
The familiar one does not treat his familiarity like that

27. For you have indeed pledged while I do not think you jesting
When you made me your companion with consent and its ease

28. That you do not incline towards the slanderers and their words
While the free one is most deserving that his covenant is proven by his oath

29. So have mercy, love, on my burning and confusion
And be compassionate for the heart has perished due to waiting

30. For I have obeyed your love submissive to it
And disobeyed what the separation came with from its harshness

31. And I have seen all opinions refuse my love
And the people between supporter and critic