1. How many days have I spent serving,
Only to make a losing deal,

2. My night of luck never dawns,
And my praise was never fruitful.

3. Every day a habitual journey,
To a vast, desolate place,

4. As if I put from its heat,
My heels upon embers.

5. My sandals wear out from walking,
Yet they never acquire patches.

6. Since my burdens were loaded,
I have endured harm patiently.

7. If the wolf of adversity weakened me,
I would taste humiliation and the dawn would not come.

8. Among those around me are many
Modest armpits and eloquent mouths.

9. My only complaint is that
I string together pearls no one wants to buy.

10. And that I hope for the company of a group
I would be diminished among people by associating with.

11. Forsaken if I sin, they do not accept
My excuse, and if I do good, I am not thanked.

12. They do not enjoin good
Or forbid evil among themselves.

13. What blood ever spilled in their land
And a covenant with God was violated?

14. They are pleased with me when I come to them
As the Kurds are pleased with Ja'far.

15. It is as if I am transported between them
From the angel of death to the Denier.