1. Despite myself and the rule of fate
I want to forget you and let go

2. Baghdad blossomed in me so I lost interest in it
Like I lost interest in life after losing you

3. I climbed its highest peaks
And cut off the noses of the honoured ladies

4. And yet about it I say while you are in it
May God water it towards the plains

5. And may its rain specifically fall on Ibn Hafsa’s house
And on the old quarters and As-Saray

6. Spaces filled with glories
And a haven delighted by singers

7. So it remained well-kept
And its vegetation kept glowing

8. I’d sacrifice my soul for its residents
And my sacrifice is too small for its lady residents

9. I imagine their presence is my longing
While the two dawns are far from the Euphrates

10. And if I had obeyed my passion for them
I would have stayed on the shore of the abyss

11. But the youth finds death
Beware of encountering fate

12. Oh my heart, you narrowly missed shattering
I see you are of the cruel hearts

13. I want to hide my love’s agony
But my falling tears expose me

14. And I have a soul thats sigh takes me up
Flowing in the tracts of my blood

15. So one I cannot stop thinking of
In times of intimacy or separation

16. If wakefulness is true, my gathering is scattered
And my dream reunites it

17. Whoever gets close to it does not get close to me
Its essence and coming are different

18. I described my love’s agony in rhymes
And what is in me cannot be grasped by attributes

19. Rhymes that if the bereaved sigh into them
Would heal the chests of mourners

20. And I divorced happiness categorically
Thrice after losing you once and for all