1. Torment me or let me be; may I be your ransom.

    Every hardship is easy beside your coldness.

  2. When, then, will I meet you one day by the arak tree?

    The sweetest moment of love is the day I see you.

  3. My heart’s desire—if you kept your promise, how sweet it would be

    when I kissed your cheeks and your mouth.

  4. Do not speak of Hind, Su‘ad, or Sulayma;

    Zaynab—I have known only love for you.

  5. Su‘ad, Zaynab, and Sulayma

    are only names; I meant no one but you.

Sol 6