1. I swear by your truth, I have no patience at first
When you are absent, nor respite at last

2. So if you ask, I am infatuated with you
And if you forget, my heart remembers

3. By Allah, the morning is not cheerful for me
Nor the full moon shining bright

4. And I wondered how the cups smiled
In a gathering you did not attend

5. Oh how I wish I knew how is
My heart with you all, while traveling afar

6. Nay, it went ahead for my loved ones
When they traveled, mounted it and flew

7. Absence attacked, while your beautiful face smiled
And distance approached, while the branch of your nearness flourished

8. You dressed me in the sickness of sleeplessness, while you
Broke my eyelid like the separation did

9. Oh tears do not fail me with help
It is enough treachery that you are a helper

10. For me in my passion for you, there is but one solution
And if you wanted, in you there are thousands of excuses

11. I did not know that Egypt was Babylon
Until I learned your glance was sorcery