1. If your heart is made of stone
Then water flows and love flows from stone

2. Or if it's made of metal then my hope, o beloved
Is fire, and what metal can withstand sparks?

3. So O Rabab, the one I'm infatuated with
Nothing remains in my guts, nothing is left

4. Have mercy on me, feel pity until you are generous
Be gentle with a lad who's in danger

5. Pour passion, allure, infatuation, grief
Agony, sorrow, sadness, constant worry

6. A progeny of anxiety, brother of sleeplessness
Friend of sorrow, friend of misery and gloom

7. The leaves mourned for him at night
When they saw his tears like the early dawn dew

8. He brings the nights back to life, gone to spread it
The passion of love keeps him up all night

9. He melted from anguish, healed from friendship, spent from sorrow
Until he became a ghost in the ugliest form

10. By God I wish I wasn't human
From the horror I went through, O best of creation

11. And I imagined that death is for he
Who became like me, desiring triumph and success

12. Separation from her tents dressed me
Not with green silk but with sickness

13. And the care of passion and warfare dressed me
With a crown of gray hair, not fresh basil

14. I didn't imagine the garden of cheeks in my mind
Except my heart becomes hellfire

15. So the heart is scorched, the eyelids drowned
The eyes sleepless, the soul constrained

16. My patience is lost, my sanity gone, she's my skin
My glory is gone, my effort is done, my life is over

17. Two things bring no solace
Either death or attaining the beloved's affection