1. Tell her who abandoned her lover
Had you been affectionate, you wouldn’t have parted

2. You left one who did not want to abandon your love
One who spends nights counting what you squandered

3. He hasn’t forgotten the days you were together
As he counts them, incoming and outgoing

4. So estrangement is anguish we fear its return
While reunion holds the cure, if only it stayed

5. Don’t estrange me, for remembering you
Will make love’s armies assault me

6. I see people I mingle with are dearer to me
Than you are, though you own my soul

7. When your visits ceased, I said
And love kindled flames in my heart, fanning them

8. O heart! Bear the absence of the one hidden
Until you see caring friends around you

9. The lover, amidst the vicissitudes of fate
Cannot find permanence in this fleeting world

10. You were never far from my thoughts, though you slipped away
I see enemies, even if they are chained

11. You gave me a demise that shook my heart
Then you left without provisioning me

12. Why didn’t you feel embarrassed, O maid
Of a man so lovesick he bent and complied

13. How can I be solaced when I am infatuated with you
If love for you doesn’t depart, it always returns

14. The heart wasn’t given a choice, it chose your proximity
Nor did passion roam except it flared wildly

15. No eyelid quivered from seeing the years
Except a phantom of you got accustomed to doing so

16. What can be ordered for one with a burning eye
Who died of love for you, O slave, or nearly did

17. The heart doesn’t remember any cheek’s visit
In past eras except it shook and leaned

18. Don’t make me wait tomorrow and the next day after
For if you do, you wouldn’t have kept your promise

19. You exhausted my love and renewed our affection
Great is the difference between trial and one who grows fonder

20. You spurned my heart and poured disgrace on it
Not every time does the hunter humiliate the hunted

21. Ubaydah said, I will blame you
If God keeps the envious away from my path

22. Whether he was stingy or generous with the man
From that time of rain and pasture