1. In the doctrine of love, I followed your example
Do you think I could belong to another but you?

2. And it is your love that I have wrapped myself in
My eyes keep your promise, and my heart is your home

3. In them your ancient pact I have hidden
You reckon the heart is done with you and has turned away

4. Yet sober again after its drunkenness, and left behind
No - by your eyes, I'll never be one to abandon

5. How can I sober up when drunk with love for you?
I never concealed this passion, which overflowed

6. Except it increased the heat of my longing
And when I confessed my love openly

7. The censurers stretched out their blame against me
So I folded up the carpet of acceptance before them

8. The critic who turned against me supposed
That I had lost myself in fancy and illusion

9. Yet my heart knows better what it has garnered
How can the meaning intend to neglect you

10. You, the wish of my heart, while it still beats?
Long has absence been, and the distance still binds me

11. And ordained for me, apart from you, estrangement
And guided me to patience, though it does not know

12. That my patience in the absence of your beauty is misguidance
So to my heart its aberration, that I thought myself guided

13. My heart was infatuated with your love, and my reason
Became, in its passion for you, infatuation

14. I drew near, having set out to draw near to you
And my heart circled around you, O Kaaba of Loyalty

15. And the brilliant dawn of intimacy shone, so I hastened