1. O you who have been ungenerous and aloof,
My patience has been exhausted by separation from you.

2. You are a beloved to every soul,
And to every sense and every nature.

3. I have missed seeing you,
So do not deprive me of hearing you.

4. Whenever a lover wearied me,
My tears would come to my aid.

5. Who can lend me a long, whining cry,
With which to bewail my power and means?

6. Over people who were and are
My riches on my day of trouble and benefit.

7. I wonder by what law,
O son of Ali, and which sacred text,

8. You made my estrangement deliberate after union
And withholding after giving.

9. So be true to the pacts of brotherhood and honor
Your brother, beyond aloofness and separation.

10. Do not forget our days in Sala',
By Allah, those days of ours in Sala'.

11. And call my name in every assembly,
As one who misses me and all company,

12. And cure with seeing you what is in my heart
Of burning and agony from yearning.

13. I reckon none will visit my grave,
Who did not visit my abode in life.