1. O Lord, if I erred or forgot
You do not forget nor perish

2. The destined end is like what I feared
Save me from the fear of what I dreaded

3. My Lord, without His protection, I would have perished
So help me, O You who helped when I cried out

4. I fling my hands to Jesus when I fall
In a land where the wicked swarm

5. The views of the wise there confused me
Far from it - its waters bring death

6. Once hosting throngs, now a barren waste
No growth sprouts in this desert

7. Where the devilish and cursed roam
As if I'm a sword with which I fight

8. Grief and bleakness split from me
The white fortress and dark confusion

9. My enemies wish that I were gone
And I hope in You to see in a dream I was sated

10. Sated with cold honey water or sated
With icy bee nectar after thirst

11. Almost to the brim of water sweet or sated
When Your food ascended to sustain me

12. Your fall restored me when I was broken
From my soul's illness after I despaired

13. Like the despair of years and what I begrudged
Or the archer and how I was targeted

14. A Muslim, I shall not forget You while I live
Your pact and what we agreed

15. If I drank poison, it would not entice me
I need none but You, even if wealthy

16. If I were deaf or blind
If I don't believe You, what misery I'd meet

17. After hardship, missing relief I sought
No longer stalwart but shaken and frail

18. I take neither half-measures nor lose resolve
The people are divided and I'm exhausted

19. Where can I get resolution when called?
Hostage of deceitful devils

20. Silent birds, their wisdom muted
If not for my waiting, I'd have tested them

21. When their accursed devil said
You have no dominion or stability

22. Unless overwhelmed by Sa'd's ill-repute
I was obstinate whenever I disobeyed

23. When matters twisted or I was bent
I do not yield to terror when afraid

24. Until wrathful fury is awakened
When the unjust leader turns

25. I said - and to them my words are loathed
A saying, when I uttered it, I went astray

26. An eloquence, if you make me speak, the mute
So I said, I save my soul when saved

27. Will an oath sanctify me if I swore?
Or silver or sulfur make me secure

28. From them and from horses known for might?
No, I called on God when guided

29. Called on Him, and the pious are secure
He gave me success and no curse reached me

30. A spirit from Him, so I came alive
He who saved me without my knowing

31. Saved me, and each end is prescribed
Moses, and Moses over whom loomed the Ark

32. And the companion of the whale - where's the whale?
In darkness underneath which I wandered

33. For the whale, in its gut, are huts
And the sea foam is its quilts

34. You see it, the whale has its bedding
Both engulfed, immersed

35. The sea waves its place to sleep
And the night atop the water slumbering

36. Its hollow belly protects him