1. The time of parting has drawn near, it is time for us to separate
Farewell my companion, until we meet again

2. If you weep, I have wept profusely from sorrow
I almost drowned in my tears and flooded

3. My ribs burned at the farewell, fearing their heat would ignite me
I've always dreaded separation before it happened

4. Until I resigned myself with no choice but to part
The day of parting, how harsh is parting

5. If not for parting I would not have hated remaining alive
We left confused and silent as if

6. Fearing speaking in our devastation
Our hearts palpitating, our eyes cannot see from crying

7. Our glances pulling, though they are weak
We restrain our breaths lest they vanish

8. If we did not comfort ourselves with the hope of meeting again
Our tears would have nearly gushed out

9. My friend, be patient, perhaps
We will return and reunite beautifully

10. If the days have not been kind to us
It is wrong for our souls not to be kind

11. He who decreed the separation and parting
Can unite those separated

12. I rode the raging sea howling
Like a lion separated from its cubs, distraught

13. My soul is anxious, yet I do not blame it
The sea is the most frightening and avoided

14. I have seen it act wisely and rationally
And I have seen it act ignorantly and fractured

15. Provoking whatever it wished to toy with us
Gentle whenever it wished to be gentle

16. Its waves battling each other
Arguing over ignorance just as we argue over remaining alive

17. While the eye sees it as erect walls
It transforms into trenches

18. The ship flowing, splitting its foam
As if tearing a loose robe

19. It rises and we reckon it intends good upon us
And thinks we are flying aloft

20. Until when it lowers us into an abyss
I was certain death stared upon us

21. The horizon has covered its leather curtain
As if obscured ink has flooded

22. Neither does the sun shine in the morning nor do we see
Either the night has been prolonged or a shining full moon

23. I spent twenty days or more
How strange were the sights I saw, an abundance of water

24. New York, daughter of steam, we intend to come to you
Perhaps in the West we may forget the East

25. A homeland we wanted out of love for the sublime
Yet it refused except withdrawal into seclusion

26. Like a slave who fears after wasting his youth
That his masters would set him free

27. Or whenever the times bring a reformer
To its people, they say he transgressed and apostatized

28. As if the injustices they committed were not enough
And as if it were not enough that we have failed

29. This is the reward of rigidity, the people of refusal in a nation
Rigidity has taken its children hostage

30. A homeland where the free feel cramped
And you see it even narrower than the free

31. I did not see in it a prosperous intellectual
Nor an ignorant sycophant

32. Ignorance has spread in it dragging its tail
Aimlessly, while knowledge walks dejected

33. Its people have become in a condition
That if it exposed the inanimate, they would have pitied

34. A people as fragmented as abandonment and whims desired
Nearly torn apart and about to be shredded

35. It does not accept the united religion of God
Yet it accepts the fragmented religion of God

36. Annoyed with the devout and the pious
While evil is between devotion and piety

37. Weakened unless it flatters one day
Hoping to see a flatterer

38. It does not believe in science which is truth
Rather, it believes in talismans and folk remedies

39. Perhaps it dislikes rigidity, but it is difficult
For a human to change his nature

40. A government no sooner deposes a fool
Than it installs a fool

41. It has antagonized us as if
We have come to betray or committed some grave iniquity

42. And it has refused except to exhaust us as if
All justice to it is that we be exhausted

43. While foreigners roam it as if
The morning breeze played with the branches of saplings

44. Baghdad is in danger and Egypt a captive
Tomorrow the hands of greed will snatch them

45. Its pillars have weakened, it does not realize
Its plight until it passes away and perishes

46. It was said love it, I said nothing remains for us
With which to love and become impassioned

47. If the motherland is not affectionate
Alas, it will not find affection from its children

48. I have come where the soul does not fear harm
Ever, and where the mind roams freely every morning

49. My soul, eternalize yourself and leave yearning behind
For it is ignorance today for you to long

50. How the light of knowledge radiates in it
I have guaranteed you a delightful life

51. Among its people, and the most beautifully blossoming living