1. Stand at Al-Hima after the tents, and call out,
Have you seen how the light of the guide has faded?

2. And litters that were shaded with the shade of an elegant palm tree,
Have you seen those who were carried on the biers?

3. If I thought to ransom my beloved with my soul,
And he is the most deserving, I would have ransomed him.

4. Alas! What has passed and settled for me cannot be equaled
By a glance and my soul with its blackness.

5. As for the blackness of the night, it is as you see,
The edge of sleep is always my pillow.

6. I rose early at your abode with a weeping eye
Like the Nile, faithful and calling.

7. My tears flowed hotly for you like a cistern
When I was saddened by a guiding star.