1. The universe has fallen asleep, my beloved, and
Every soul has returned to its longing abode,

2. Everything around me is embraced by silence,
And all eyes have slept their visions away.

3. In the darkness remains no wretched soul,
Except my soul that has erased its gloom.

4. It is my soul that loved you until
It sanctified in you its sorrow and agony.

5. Everything around me is gloomy and dreadful,
It evokes ecstasy or arouses passions.

6. Everything around me shares my solitude,
Yearning, ardour, grief and pining.

7. The spark of life has faded out and ignited
Is the spark of ardent love and lament.

8. The night has walked lightly awakening
With its spirit the two lovers.

9. Ask the night about me, my beloved,
While I ask destiny about you.

10. Ask the night - perhaps the night will bless
A call it loves to hear from you.

11. How gently we sipped it and affectionately,
And how we made it shed tears of lament.

12. We planted our hopes in it like flowers -
How we've come to turn the flowers into thorns!

13. O stranger to my abode, you once suffered
The adversity and trials I endure,

14. O stranger to my home, these are my songs
Calling you while none answers their call.

15. You have made it, from afar, deserted -
Flowing with the darkness my weeping.

16. My youth has stumbled like a specter
In the shadow, a genius of gloom.

17. My beloved, this is my fate of your love -
A heart that lives for deprivation.

18. My sad tent weeps for you
And complains to you of the injustice of time.

19. Was it the crime of my fortune, my beloved,
Or the human cruelty?

20. The infidels have killed my family
And the fate that cast you out cast me out.

21. Ask the night about me, my beloved,
And forgive the night when it comes Blindly.

22. I have taught it to be bemused by my silence,
And my bemusement is from what I have reaped.

23. May love have mercy on every song that died
And turned into a drawing on my lips.

24. My time was craving to hear its echo
To sing it for the wretched being.