1. Oh cord of affinity, how lengthy you are!
Fate has severed you for a time and connected you.

2. The judgement of time is by the causes of affinity,
And the celestial spheres have decreed what they willed for us.

3. By God, I have melted in passion and sorrow
Due to separation from you, my heart and intimate friend.

4. Time hurried and did not show tenderness towards us -
Oh time of affinity, how hasty you are!

5. You have melted, oh heart, sick without them,
While, with them, your sickness was not as severe.

6. How much hope you have attained with them,
When the nights did not fulfil your hopes!

7. Would that one day passion made you oblivious to them -
For that day their coquetry brought about your excuse.

8. Do you see, after the estrangement from them,
Any return by which one who died may live?

9. Oh intimate friend, grieving for us after absence,
When my heart crossed over you and controlled me!

10. If you count a day, despite fate,
You will find the heart as it was once yours.