1. Shall your beauty compare to kindness
When God commanded us with love and charity

2. So fear no punishment for a connection
Since He granted us what He prohibited

3. The prophets in the Torah, most were
Passionate, for David allured Solomon

4. Love to me is not worship, and passion is not nonsense
For I saw the angel of love as a demon

5. Who is chaste exposes weakness or distress in himself
I pity Qais and next Ghiylan

6. Nature’s rule is just, so ask
Two satisfied with love’s bliss and wine

7. Of news, most true to me
Is that which made me wise in love

8. All creeds and faiths are lies
For birds and beasts equaled man in it

9. No marriage contract fulfilled its essence
Nor recognizes it sheikhs or monks

10. If Adam sneaked eating the apple
I will eat apples and pomegranates

11. And if I trespass gardens, plucking
I leave, having broken its branches

12. And fear no God’s punishment lazily
For it the devil kindles fires

13. So Eve the weak built nothing
But warriors among lovers

14. She is strong if her determination is considered
And weak if you move her pillars

15. Best of people are the strongest, no wonder
If I seek Tabriz and a Sultan

16. So beware the eruption of my passion
I carry it in my heart a volcano

17. If you say, beware the brazen tomorrow
Disgracing us with spears and swords

18. What is it to you, and in your eyes a lightning
To burn them and unleash love a flood

19. I have no ship but your love, and if
It drowns, happiest in love we drown

20. Seek no explanation from me, I’m a man
Whose concision was prolixity and eloquence

21. He jokes sometimes, and his chastity
Amazes the maiden poet sometimes

22. I may speak without action, and act what
I say in describing what was what was

23. This is my life, and of its secrets I have
What fills the world with joys and sorrows

24. So shade me with illuminated flowers
On a willow branch, shyer than the houris

25. And let me hear of melodies the sweetest
That I see beauty in shapes and colors

26. The breeze carries from a flower and some hair
A scent that excites passions and singing

27. How we eavesdropped on the gentlest strings
When the hearts met like two palms

28. And I spent the night as it drapes its veil of darkness
Folding its trains, sleeves and curtains