1. When you lead me and carry my belongings
On a journey of four miles after supper

2. Your treatment of me is most kind, while to abandon me would be blameworthy,
And I shall not return to my family behind me.

3. The Muslims came and left me
In the land of Syria, longing for rest,

4. While every close relative has denied me
Before the Merciful, severing all brotherhood.

5. There I shall not care if Sirius appears,
Nor for palms whose bases are irrigated.