1. Your rejection is my malady, and your affection is my remedy
Your estrangement is my cure, and refusal is my medicine

2. How can I restrain myself when I am drunk with passion?
Like the wretched sinner coveting the forbidden

3. If you disapprove of love, that is your law
But my law is loyalty to the lover

4. Oh sorrow of passion that knows no respite
Neither in death nor amidst the living

5. By God, love perplexes the souls
And the eye finds no rest without slumber

6. In my cup remains but a sip
In the cupbearer's hand, and a teardrop for my lament

7. My Lord, your command and decree cannot be reversed
Yet these are the stirrings of yearning from Sa'dah!

8. Union is the goal I seek, so will tomorrow
Come with the echo of your voice calling me?