1. Oh Abd al-Rahman, you have rekindled embers
When you decided to empty out patience

2. After your advice, I find tears flowing
As if grief made tears more tempting

3. I do not cry for losing her, God knows
Even if the calamity was early

4. She's a part of me, so if I cried, it's excused
For a father whose chest tightened with misery

5. Except that tears express sorrows
Like flint whenever it's struck, it sparked

6. It's not strange, with accumulating calamities
That matters become heavier and more burdensome

7. The days have made me adept in the tunes of sadness
So I composed tears for people in poetry

8. Despite me, my teardrops poured down
And against my will, disobeyed the order of patience

9. Hardships have made my eyes swell in the heat of affliction
And I did not find anything but my tears to pour out

10. Do not blame the one whose strength is weakened by calamities
If he did not find a way out

11. The eyelid was created as an outlet for tears
Not as prisons and graves for their outpouring

12. So spare me the blame, my friend, for I
Am too pained to restrain the flow of tears

13. It's not easy for me, now that I've lost a monkey
To complain of loneliness and be hurt by separation

14. And it's too much for me when you say
That I will find after her a replacement just as lovely

15. My yearning for the girl in the lonesome grave
Suffering in it the stillness of death

16. Forever, regrets keep assaulting my conscience
Roaming around back and forth

17. And tears poured out for you in profusion
Increasing the heart's anguish and heat

18. So farewell, like the spring, and leave for me
A trace between us, even if just a memory