1. Aba Hasan, do you reckon that my passion
Would lessen with the onset of misfortunes?

2. That seeing you would enliven my fervor
And I’d give you solace for the departed?

3. How could that be when you embody my dreams -
The haven of a blissful, gentle life -

4. My heart flutters to you in gratitude
With a tenderness toward this strange visitor.

5. I can bear the words of others and their presence suits me,
But my love for you flows like a draught.

6. In your palms rests my tether
And without you my staff is cast down.

7. I have a longing for you that exalts my heart,
And I have no remedy but your nearness.

8. I envy the seclusion of others with you
As a lover envies the beloved.

9. When you are absent I find no joy in life
Or pleasure in the days.

10. I pine when I recall you from afar
And am glad when I see you near.

11. You are the hope I await expectantly
And the rise of imminent relief.

12. When I hear news that you are near,
My heart descends to you in fervor.

13. The caravan leader gave tidings after five days
Of a flash of lightning striking my heart.

14. I make peace on the nights I see you
And pardon time for its sins.

15. I forget all the calamities
That misfortunes etched upon me.

16. Doubts incline me toward you
Until I incline toward a close kinsman.

17. Through your nobility you draw near me
Despite the distance between tribes and clans.

18. When we meet, I almost doubt
The ambiguous glances and breaths between us.

19. And where did you find in my heart a passion
That yearns with love in old age?

20. When the visit nears, you are to me
Like the soul to the body’s joints.

21. And if the meeting is far, though I long to see you,
We exchange glances of the hearts.