1. O you caravan of Yemen, why do you
Travel the desert with Yemeni lightning?

2. You strive to conceal love through your efforts
Can a man conceal what is not hidden?

3. God refused that a love be concealed behind it
Tears and sighs have split the shelters

4. And O company that passed by Malik's Ghurfa
Whose houses overlook its pastures

5. I implore you by Allah if you have implored
A part of me that I lost from my heart

6. And you said to a living tribe nearby
They stayed and took the place of my neighbors

7. Restrain yourselves, do not hasten my abandonment
The nights have enough turns in fate

8. Is it true that I paid off your debts
While my debts remain as they are?

9. So woe to me, I will graze as a strayer
And feel safe with traitors and remember the forgetful

10. And my loved ones still do me wrong
And spurn me until I pardon enemies

11. The best of my friends spared himself for me
Sparing me, not needing me or mine

12. Did you not see that their chief has prolonged his farewell
For a reason, responding to the call of separation

13. And they said, "Tomorrow we will depart at dawn"
Alas if the caravan departs in the morning

14. So O heart, return to what you knew of passion
Far be it from passion to awaken today indifferent

15. And O my inner self, melt, and O my eyelid, keep vigil
And O soul, leave none of the ecstasy left

16. And O my confidante, reserved for secrets between us
I will tell you my love, speaking intimately

17. When you see the flock scare a delicate gazelle
Who cries beautifully with tearful eyes

18. Do not go near that gazelle, he
Will escape you, striking and deafening you

19. And give my regrets to those who expected
To meet me again after this day, that we will not meet

20. So do not hope for relief from my condition, for it
Is the sickness that has exhausted the healer

21. And I have never known in love a day whose shade was pleasant
Where we attained from life's existence something pure

22. I see in you a disturbing glance towards it
Is there in you any of the agony of love that is in me?

23. On a night of union we wore its youth
Until dawn streaked on us like white temples,

24. We recalled the complaints we met from passion
But when we reconciled, we forgot the complaints,

25. And we spent the night despite the envious, embracing,
Enveloped together in its cloak and gown,

26. Though the crimes of the nights were many,
They did not cease until we thanked the nights,