1. You deserve the best, for I do not repeat nor initiate
Due to my intense longing and burning passion in my heart

2. Yes, I swear by God, I swear by God I’m loyal
To your pacts until I’m laid to rest in my grave

3. My dear ones, when the house parted me from you
The ally of loyalty, pure friendship and affection

4. Your affection is incumbent upon me
I'm indebted to it as long as I live near and far

5. I befriended you, O people of Mecca, a unique friendship
Singular among lovers in this regard

6. May your finest reward be from God for a young man
Who gave you sincere affection intentionally

7. So my days with you are for God, and how wonderful
My gathering with you around the abode as promised

8. When kindred spirits gather for me with you
And God’s destiny brings about my happy reunion

9. And as I’m delighted to meet you comfortably
And chat over cups of your sweet discourse

10. During those nights I was in bliss
With which I ennobled myself despite my enemies’ envy

11. Nights that passed for me in your bright gatherings
Where I’d visit you sometimes, then take leave

12. So my brother Abdel Latif and his companion Khaled
You both know what I have

13. You thought me cold when you missed
My correspondence. No, by dignity and affection!

14. For if what you said was true, my beloveds
I wouldn't have reached the purpose of glorious friendship

15. Nor aspired to the highest principles
Nor took the pillar of greatness by the hand with you

16. Nor purified my soul with the affection of leaders
Whom those in the universe seeking guidance emulate

17. To them ascends virtue in knowledge and piety
And their virtue alone inherited from Muhammad

18. My friends, convey my greetings
Greetings of my ribs aching with passion

19. Especially to Bakri, the pioneer of his time
The absolute imam in legal rulings and judgments

20. And my shaykh Ibn Abdullah Ahmad, through whom
This era is graced after

21. And specifically cordial greetings to the devout
Yes, my beloved shaykh and master

22. He has a virtue too vast for my gratitude
If I exhausted myself thanking him

23. And say to that student, may
What the servant’s hand reaped absolve him

24. And do not neglect to convey my greetings
To our shaykh, the tailor, my master Muhammad

25. They are my beloveds whom through their knowledge
And deeds obeying God I emulate

26. So my longing for them is an ardent lover’s longing
And the longing of one far away for his beloved

27. May God one day return us together
To the Mother of Cities after distance and separation

28. For though I’ve come to be among my paternal
And maternal uncles and in my native land

29. My heart still remains with you
Until remoteness folds away from my vision

30. And I yearn for every well-mannered
And well-educated one, as knowledge is my greatest pursuit

31. May a breeze of scholarly spirit
Reunite me with my loved ones

32. Lifting from me constraints after they
Weighed on me until hardship called "sit!"

33. So my heart became a polished mirror
At the hands of contentment with all remote past