1. For whom is the beauty whose fragrance wafts in the desert?
Whose lips are moistened by yearning and ardent longing,

2. Who roams ardently in the wilderness, consumed by desire,
And who plunges into the sea of passions without fatigue?

3. She traverses the land gently and at ease
And swims in the deep waters effortlessly.

4. When lightning flashes in the darkness,
And she trots playfully, almost flying.

5. They likened her to the moon guiding lost travelers,
If shadows crept and the darkness thickened.

6. If they were to pause and contemplate the meaning,
It would relieve the passion, though passion has no relief.

7. They left him suffering, beyond ransom,
Enslaved by his love, beyond cure.

8. How can he follow those who have forsaken him,
While tears erase their traces?

9. When can the broken-hearted find consolation,
As sorrows fold around him like a bag?

10. Whenever he inclines toward the stream,
His tears hold him back from the eyelids' rim.

11. Why are the gazelles of the sanctuary silent?
I yearn while she complains endlessly.

12. Where is my passion, gazelles of the sanctuary?
The groves echo the deer while the gazelles resound.

13. Buried passion is revealed through the wounds
As the spark reveals the secret essence of flint.

14. Ah, the memory of nights of desire and bliss!
While my people were neighbors and fate was kind.

15. Such are the days of pining that flee,
How many joys have vanished with separation!

16. Torment comes with the course of passion,
Reproaching and longing persistently call.

17. My two friends, offer sincere advice,
If sincerity to the confidant can be found.

18. Has the loyal fulfiller of promises been just?
By God, he is most generous and kind.

19. Passion overwhelmed me, though I thought
The depths of love were jest and play.

20. For passion's heat is hard to endure,
And the utmost of love is toil and struggle.

21. Yet I incline toward the pleasures of youth
And the enjoyments and games of boyhood.

22. I do not complain of the fires of passion
If I can obtain the breath of God's Messenger.

23. The Master of Both Worlds, the Guardian
Who has immersed creation in His blessings.

24. His signs shone brilliantly when they appeared,
Illuminating the horizon gloriously.

25. He dispelled the darkness of disbelief through them
As the dawn dispels the blackness of night.

26. So polytheism saw its past faults and since then
No wounds have touched it throughout time.

27. He brought Creation to perfection so He holds
The most weighty prohibition and wisest word.

28. To Him belongs the sublime chalice in the Highest,
Whenever the Most High attains victory, He drinks.

29. How much grace has He bestowed bountifully,
With an open palm that never withholds!

30. He healed the deepest wound with His noble resolve
When affliction struck the people with its sting.

31. And when hope fails for one who hopes,
Salvation lies with the Messenger of God.

32. A Master whose least trait is sublimity,
And the least gained from His bounty is plenty.

33. O Messenger of God! You whose nobility
Has always brought the world gain and profit.

34. You are the one hoped for if distress comes
Or the roads to success are blocked.

35. Show clemency to your errant supplicant
Where today is your pardoning and forgiving?

36. Save him from the hands of separation that
Has ceaselessly severed him ruthlessly.

37. Bring him near to You in sanctuary, for
The vastness of India has straitened him.

38. Destinies I can control through my hands
After the world was worn out by their tyranny.

39. The garden envies their subtle composition,
As soft rain describes them dripping from branches.

40. The cheek wishes, as it listens to them,
That it were the necklace encircling his neck.

41. Every coquettish woman, when she recites them,
Is adorned by the virtues of the chosen elite.