1. Leave her be, she wants the clouds
As long as the truth remains sick

2. She won't graze unless she settles in the valleys
Love is naught but its carcass and traces

3. Naaran is nothing but hearts
Smitten with the passion of Naaran utterly enamored

4. Keep her from marrying until she sees
Descents in Hadhramout covered in shrouds

5. O home of loved ones, since the eye saw you
After customs had collapsed

6. We lived a covert life snatched
From the hands of adversities that was bliss near you

7. Where is the gazelle I entrusted in your regions
To gain access to hearts in throngs

8. His eyes sought me the day we met
In the open desert, he went well

9. And we picked from his words scattered pearls
Seeing him with a subtle smile

10. And we embraced, so I became sickly and glum
Emaciated while he was so beautiful

11. How can I want half when my heart
Obedient to passion assails me violently

12. And if I say I'm pacified, leave
Love be, I find it supremely magnificent

13. I complained of passion, but love
Did nothing good for my heart, I found no mercy

14. It's no use, my tears steadily streaming
With passion, though the tongue falls silent

15. I said, while my innermost being silences speech
Bewildered, confused, and frowning

16. How could you leave with my heart
From my home, never to settle

17. You are not, O most cherished, aloof from love
Untouched by it, though you shun it

18. Don't blame me, all who bear passions
Consent to being blamed

19. What business have I with one asleep on the hillside
If I stay up shepherding the stars

20. If I'm twisted by love, my friend
Lead me straight, don't reproach me

21. Don't test me further in these times
I was always prescient of the times

22. Where are the sincere ones, we were all
Together, then scattered in the winds' gusts

23. I aimed at them after death had taken them
But hit nothing aside from rubble

24. Who can excuse me from time, brother, so
Crooked, though I try to be straight

25. None grant permanence but those who
Wrest that permanence passionately

26. How often I see myself a erected palace
Then suddenly it's in ruins

27. Wealthy, the nights' twists
Keep assailing him till he's destitute

28. Happy, misfortunes drew near us
And joy reaped sorrows

29. We are a people, if humanity were called
To dignity, we'd be called to vileness

30. And if they sought glory on the horizons
We'd be in the thick of it, truly

31. And if they listed the abodes of pride
Zamzam would not be among them, nor the Sacred House

32. Of people who, when glory stretched out its wings
Were duty bound to cling to glory always

33. They never settled in the home of disgrace, but were
Above the stars- radiant stars

34. For time they are its brilliant torches
Without them, it would be mindless

35. And when the steeds were roused and skins
Made to weep or squeezed to the utmost

36. And you saw on the day of battle, spears
Make Hell of piercing chests

37. They wore white, their spears their armor
Protecting none but their noble figures

38. Every brazen one you see in war a fool
In friendship, forbearing

39. He loves not life but to enrich
A pauper or protect a harem

40. And you see him talk as Indian steel
Gets harder the more it's hammered

41. We preserved what was a serious pursuit
And supported what lacked support

42. Through us aspiration came to be
When people's hopes were once futile

43. And when sorrows attack, our great ones
And greatest suffice

44. Ask us, when merits were weighed
Who proved most magnificent in glory and most generous in camp

45. And when times were hard on people
Who was most authentic in hardship

46. In us is a resolve with which we rain
Justice on the oppressed and sustain the deprived

47. The noble one is he who, when some
Rise emitting poisons, rises exhaling breeze

48. How often I've pondered, but thinking seldom
Remedies a burning anxiety within

49. I found none to make fortunate, and who
Can make the trenchant blade fortunate

50. And if I called a people to resolve
I called only the sleepless

51. Better to die noble
Than live despised, wretched