1. What is this estrangement, O solace of my heart,
Though I have done no wrong nor sinned?

2. I ask God’s great forgiveness, though
I love you with utmost passion.

3. My pleading for your sublime beauty
O, that beautiful act, of youth,

4. Join me to you, and cease reproaching me,
And remove the dread and fear.

5. Let the fires of aloofness die down, for
Its flames have consumed my heart.

6. Rejoice in the rule of a trusted youth,
Keen of insight, blow and stroke,

7. Of virtue that protects him
From committing ugly sins,

8. I stand with his words and position
Regarding Ibn Al-Hussein and Amr of the dogs

9. And upon you what the adorned woman sang
The most fragrant salutations, O solace of my heart

10. More aromatic than the nisreen at dawn
Whose fragrances cure all sorrows