وَهَبتُ اِشتِهاري في هَواكَ صَبابَتي

لِيَشهَدَ فيكَ الغائِبونَ تَهَتُّكي

I sacrificed my reputation in your love, my youth,

So the absent ones could witness in you my madness.

وَزَهَّدتُ فِيَّ الراغِبينَ عَنِ الهُدى

بِخَلعِ التُقى مِن بَعدِ لُبسِ التَنَسُّكِ

And I became indifferent to those who seek guidance

By shedding piety after wearing the garb of asceticism.

وَما ضاقَ ذَرعي بِالمَلامَةِ مِنهُم

وَأَوسَعُ شَيءٍ فيكَ لِلعُذرِ مَسلَكي

I am not vexed by their blame,

For the widest thing for excuse in you is my path.

وَلِكِنَّ تَوحيدي هَواكَ بِغَيرَتي

مَصونٌ عَن الإِلقاءِ في سَمعِ مُشرِكِ

But my professing your love exclusively out of jealousy

Is protected from telling to the hearing of the polytheists.