1. That fevered gazelle exhausted my patience
Alas, my heart can't be freed from its grip

2. Please, O guide through the wilderness and valleys
Revive the playgrounds with their goods and streams

3. And revive its inhabitants, stop by its settlements
My hearing that on the day we parted became their hearing

4. And I found solace for the eye of sadness in their solace
Stop at the sand dunes, I'll pray - it became their origin

5. And my heart will chant when it sees their quarters
Between the tents, for I left it behind among them

6. Oh dear, neither my soul nor body remain
O guide through anguish, rather all of me is wasted on it

7. Those are the dwellings, so dwell in them and do not dwell
And remember my passions and describe my agony there

8. And say: your love's patient is the one who cures him
I am called yours based on a delusion

9. And burning with longing for you is your burning
By your right over me, to meet you is purely missing you

10. O neighbor of the neighborhood, you've gone far
To a lad whom your nearness is the height of his wishes

11. How in loving you the passion of his intention appeared
To others until he folded up all his intentions

12. All passions became his passion
Were it not for the apparition of dreams coming to him

13. After you left he would almost breathe his last
I've never found anything in the world pleasing me

14. Unless related to you, from you, O architect of my being
The secret of your features, O dweller in my body

15. Is that the cooing dove's song in the valleys excites me
How many meadows of intimacy through you its poles were erected

16. Then the zephyrs of memories stirred its breezes
And the branch of my existence - how much I frequented it

17. And longing grips me when its doves moan
A passion melting my inner being from remembering its people

18. I've never met the like of this religion and its sinners
States of devotion for its dissenters and expatriates

19. Oh Saad, take my state from one who offers his cheek
If the water of my tears overflows from my lids

20. Don't drink the water except from its channels