1. My love, why did I become lonely
And why did the rope tear apart?

2. Did you tantalize me with the longing I had for you
So I was excluded?

3. Some of the estrangement you inflicted upon me came to me
And I was inflicted upon.

4. I had barely reached evening before
The living paled and I was wrapped up.

5. Indeed, I was above the fountains
And my head was bent down.

6. My love, if mercy drew near to your heart I would be brought close.
When you are distant I become miserable

7. And when you are near I become respected.
Abu Amr honored me

8. And I was honored to stay away from you.
So I did not hear the longing

9. Calling out loudly to my hearing.
The longing has killed my limbs

10. And some of the longing has killed me.

11. Is it not enough for you that I am from you
(Kept awake) the whole night in captivity?

12. And that tears are a spring
And that the heart is fluttering?

13. If you wish I feign composure
But I cannot be patient if you wish it.

14. Oh, if only I was given from you
What you have given I would be given!

15. And I blamed you for my insomnia
As I blamed whoever kept me awake.

16. It is as if, the day I met you,
I was left confused behind the eye.

17. It is as if from that love of yours
I became mute and silent.

18. Whenever I intended to look into a need
I forgot.

19. Indeed, I went and did not know
Whether it was a spell or fatigue.

20. My love, I have no patience
And if you made it easy for me I would come.

21. By Allah, even the whale cannot be patient
In the desert wilderness!

22. A jinni called me to you
From the gardens, a demon.

23. With a face of radiant beauty
Adorned with neck and softness.

24. As if the spirit and breeze in it
Is mingled musk, dissolved.

25. It flowed in the water of your cheeks
And grew in the white fangs.

26. It is as if the words from your mouth
Are pearls and rubies for us.

27. If you turn away, people will die when told "Die!"
And if you come, eyes are Marut and Harut.

28. I made you, O Habba, my enemy
After you were once my beloved.

29. Yet I did not panic though I was
Panicked when you frightened me.