1. My body is lean with love and passion
Some from my beloved, some from my Lord

2. Two fires - one, if revealed, cured with medicine
The other concealed from medicine

3. My Master, wait, for I cannot bear
To reproach except in the place of reproach

4. I am tried, its afflictions fixed
More relentless than the winds in the deserts

5. More copious than my tears, so when
I despair of it, my heart is on fire

6. Deprived of wearing clothes, I have been
Stripped naked except for moist pearls

7. My body, weak against it, when
Aroused, is not firm

8. My hands clasping each other
Are like two armies meeting in battle and striking

9. And between them is nothing
Except withered dark fingers and twigs

10. As if my fingers when unleashed
Are horses charging in the battlefield of my body

11. Sometimes driving to the right, reversing it
Other times to the left and heart

12. Until night comes and I am with it
Thrown on my back or side

13. As if my body is the spoils and my hands
Plundering it, ranging in pillage

14. So forgive me, O Muhammad, my protector
And pardon a sinful supplicant

15. For I cannot withstand the reproach
For what I complained, so overlook and disregard my sin