1. What sin in loving you has he committed,
A passionate lover whose thirst was never quenched,

2. Separation made intense sorrow obligatory,
By your aloofness - I wonder - what did it necessitate?

3. Your admiration is no novelty to them,
Whoever saw something wondrous admired it,

4. Do not blame him if he is infatuated with you
And poured passion and expressed his fervor,

5. How sweet is ecstasy in loving you!
And my torment in you - how sweet it is!

6. O my descending fear! How did you harm them
If you had united those whom you separated?

7. Yearning betrayed him so since
Your absence prolonged, he lost composure,

8. Whenever a smile shone, he was stupefied
And if a breeze blew, it elated him

9. Since destiny distanced him from your homes
No day has been palatable to him

10. And if his glance attempted to return
Yearning for you shook him and he was alert

11. The crescent of beauty resembles him
A bright moon - from it - has its likeness

12. Passion and sorrow have ignited his entrails
And love has captivated his reason and seized it

13. A dark complexioned man - if night overcomes him
Dawn attacks him and defeats him

14. He sees no blame in love and if
The lover blames - he finds it flirtatious

15. He mixed coquetry into aloofness
And told of flirtation from it out of anger

16. So if a lover intends to blame
The matter becomes confusing for him and indistinct