1. Send word to those friends whose affections found me too hard to retain,
And be tender to them, however perverse I have been.

2. Tell them the fear I betrayed and the passion I would not reveal-
What cared Ibn Wakkas or Akhtal for such as I feel?

3. Had they not veiled me with victim and fate I inherited,
I would have shown them a passion as warm as Akhtal's could be.