1. The beloved was angry and wrath rose against me,
By Allah, what I fear most is the neighbor,

2. We used to provoke with union a group
Who in the morning rejoiced at the sight of us,

3. Since I do not see a shape that is like ours,
Beautiful, and join us there, neighborhood,

4. It is as if we did not meet in a session
In which there was singing, narcissus, and blossoms,

5. How ominous was the session we were in
That evening, and the enemies were present,

6. Urbanity which Iraq has become its abode
And for it in Zawra’a Al Madina home,

7. The closest kinship to it that we
Are two persons united to it by affinity,

8. O you, man, whose heart is tortured,
Be brief, for healing is in brevity,

9. Tears flowed from your eyes, so borrow
An eye from another whose tears flow,

10. Who will lend you an eye to cry with it?
Have you seen an eye lent for crying?

11. Love is first immaturity
Brought about by destiny,

12. Until the youth plunges into the pitfalls of passion,
Matters come that cannot be endured,

13. And when you look at the lover, you recognize him
And the traces of passion appear on him,

14. Say what you wanted to say, for perhaps
Destiny brought affliction upon the youth,

15. O Fawz, can you come back to what
We were when we were young?

16. For I singled you out with passion and diverted it
From those talked about you, so they envied,

17. Do you remember the Bakr’s house and our amusement
And for that we had fear and caution?

18. Or do you remember my visiting you disguised
Wearing a fur coat and veil?

19. I wished the night would last and
The day would be gone and there would be no day,

20. Is there no preserved sanctity for that?
Shame on whoever cuts relations treacherously,

21. I will admit to the sin I did not commit
If admitting benefits you,

22. What do you order, may I sacrifice myself for you, about a man
Whose eyelids do not meet eyelashes?

23. Whoever hated you and spent his night
Passion is surely harmful to passionate lovers,

24. The loved ones severed his rope, so it is as if
When they abandoned him and harmed him,

25. A man whose illness dragged on in loneliness
Travel took him away from his family,

26. He cannot devise a solution out of necessity
He spent his evening with rumors about him circulated,

27. Until an opportunity was made possible for him at that time
A caravan which trader riders cast lots over,

28. They carried him thin between them
His clothes in rags, his bones visible,

29. He lies tossed by palms, taken in
As pouches are fastened and placed under him,

30. Until an opportunity was made possible for him at that time
A caravan which trader riders cast lots over,

31. They aimed to incapacitate the sick man, so they
Prevented him from boarding and left him behind and departed,