1. My friends, I have lost sleep and slumber
Are you two awake in Al-'Is at night?

2. They said: You slept then called us
While we are drowsy young men

3. So get up wherever you wish, we are where we desire
And if you want revelry with us, we are ready

4. My friends, I have recovered from lovesickness
And you two have healed from the evils of youth

5. Come on, may God bless you, take me
To Al-Qara'a then leave me

6. You both have descended on Al-Shaqqiqah
A just arbitrator between passion and chastity

7. My friends, restrain the twisted tongues and know
That I have no effort left, so leave me

8. I have deliberated the matters, know that
I am aware of myself and the youths for a while

9. I do not blame a friend, nor do I find
A confidant and the one who chats equal

10. God's servants, am I not living righteously
Until the two assemblages are gathered

11. Nor am I heedless, spending the whole night
With fair ladies, their breasts intoxicating me

12. They seduce us until our minds are led astray
And mix obvious desires with hidden ones

13. The love of Umm Al-Ghamr is but my nature
May God protect me from it, then guide me

14. Guide me away from loving her and my nature
Yes, the haughty scorn me

15. They prevent our passionate souls from desire
When our hearts are inclined towards them

16. They turn the lovers away from the water springs after
Seven or eight dry years have passed

17. If only Umm Al-Ghamr would stay
At Tathleeth or at Al-Khatt in Oman

18. I wish that God would unite us
However He wills in this life, so we meet

19. And we would be a generous group, pure amongst us
Protecting it with good companionship

20. It will remain and not fade, be hidden and not seen
So they would not know about our matter clearly

21. Among the people there are two who owe me
Great debts - if they willed they would have finished me

22. My friend, Umm 'Amr is one of them
As for the other, do not ask me

23. They are unjust, wronging me
With their beauty which has deceived me

24. The white skin and eyes, luxury has fed them
Bounty and life dwelling in neighborhoods

25. They remain until people think I
Have been finished, but no, by God, they did not finish me

26. Each day you obsess over her lands
With eyes that are love sick

27. When my eyes tear up, my friends say
Indeed, your eyes are love sick

28. If my companions did not chide me for mentioning her
I would roam from dwelling to dwelling

29. I obeyed you until my clan hated me
And my chief shunned me from his gathering

30. And I risked myself for you until you shot me
With hot arrows where you shot me

31. The greatest loss from you has departed or travelled
So it was clear without wrongdoing or hatred

32. I bid him farewell then turned away as if
I was impenetrable, unaffected by the sorrows of youth

33. Perhaps the sin remains with him in his view
So you will be punished for it if the time is delayed

34. By the life of my father Ashma'a, estrangement heals
A foot I see that long separation has healed me

35. My friend, concealed love has cracked my enclosure
So how can I conceal love, can you tell me?

36. Love has made my body unlike any other body
Soft, though I speak with my tongue

37. Shall I guide the evening visitors
To a drinking place other than what they seek?

38. To an easy, cooling drinking place
Drawn not where they draw

39. For the water they seek
I have owed religious debts for a long time

40. Smooth cheeked, twisted hairlock, good complexion
He has endless charms and wishes

41. If I were scourged for it, I would be patient
If I were chained, I would not stop being devoted

42. So pass by and say we are seeking something
And return saying we are leaving

43. If there is reward in estrangement, then
The reward in estrangement has passed, O youths

44. By God, I do not know which of the lovers
Is more patient with what is between us

45. We are well known, it is agreed upon us
To meet those we do not desire to win

46. We are of different tribes, yet we
Have not lived to meet for that