1. No wonder if passion inclines me towards you,
Since your beauty excuses me for what must be.

2. Your habit was but a flash of lightning
That shone for us, though veils enshrouded it.

3. You turn from me out of boredom for no reason
Save that I admit being depressed by you.

4. So it startles me, though I tended the love,
That I have grown apart while others draw near you.

5. For the eye, with you, comforts are abundant,
While the heart's share is all toil and trouble.

6. If you love, then this beauty is my fortune,
And if you spurn me, this estrangement my fate.

7. But my hope's fair opinion may bring you back to me -
That shyness, merit and propriety.

8. Between us are the obligations of passion's pledge
And the kinship of having suckled the milk of youth together.

9. Judge me, and judge justly, in reason, love and passion,
And you will find my rank is not inferior to theirs.

10. Let not my temples' grayness deceive you about me,
For my resolute morning is not one to conceal itself.

11. How often have I faced anxieties in the deep dark night
While the full moon's face wore a veil of driving cloud!

12. I speak while the celestial lightning smiles
And the scented breeze blows and rain pours down.

13. When a cloud gave drink to ground from Muzayn's water-skin,
The ground it singled out got its richest moisture.

14. A land which, if you ask who live in its expanse,
Is answered: the noblest in generosity and lineage.

15. A people whom, when you visit them, their love provides you
With a mother and father, as it were, among them.