1. Love and separation in a body sick with grief,
Life for one like this will soon slip away.

2. His life is his death, and his death is his life,
What good is life when blessings fade?

3. I see lovers whom ordeals have long afflicted,
It's as if their passion itself plagues them.

4. I know this in myself and understand their plight,
They may show mercy while I did not have mercy as they did.

5. The message came with what I had feared,
Oh what grief for me from what the pen has writ!

6. She said: what we were wary of has come true,
So the fire blazes among the spiteful.

7. Seek refuge in You from me, for the people have vowed
To kill you - flee from them, do not be harmed!

8. Had I not feared that their threats would hurt him
None of their threats would have crossed my lips.

9. Even if they forbid me from visiting you,
While they all watch on in fear of what they claimed,