1. My eyes saw a fire light in the evening
From its glow, I knew it was an Indian's campfire

2. It kindled in a meadow, lighting up
A palm's shine with its bracelets

3. O Mayy, I'm indebted to you all
Beyond what I deny myself and my vigilance

4. Tell Nu'man about me, saying
My imprisonment and waiting have been prolonged

5. If it weren't for water, my throat would be cracked
I'd be like boughs cracking from lack of water

6. I wonder about Dakhil and his slander
Wherever my night and day have reached me

7. Sitting there, he torments me intentionally
Though my jail and confinement were unlawful

8. The best of you have God's great blessings
And my nearness to you all was wholesome

9. God has indeed favored you
Above those whose loins are bound by waistbands

10. We already knew, before you
The tent poles and pegs of the dwellings

11. We excel in singing when we are cheered
And defending you with strong hands

12. Your father, though, was never tarnished by us
The day misfortune befell those who lost

13. My enemies took pleasure that
I was absent from them in captivity

14. No man who stumbles because of me
If he's struck by the slips of time

15. So if my fate withholds its goodness
And dwells with evil, neighboring me

16. I frolic with a carnation-cheeked beauty
Who fills my eyes away from indecency

17. Many days I took pleasure in her
And now am shortened in a prison cell

18. With conversation an old man allows
And words like those of Madhi, theBard

19. We fulfilled a need for pleasure
Though a man's life is like something borrowed

20. Like the feathers of an arrow released predawn
From a steep, high cliff of darkness flew