1. Is there a confidant I part with everyday,
And a friend reminding me of all his virtues?

2. Lying in the doubts of a tyrannical fate,
Its calamities upon me from all sides emerge.

3. Gazing for a past that exiled me,
Whose lightnings and thunders did on me converge,

4. Agony over agony and sorrow redoubled,
Upon shreds of misery that in life submerge.

5. Afflictions - had they rained on the sun, it would not shine,
And the moon - they would eclipse its nights with surge.

6. So I meet it with resolve, and postponement,
Until it leaves me with no friends or peers.

7. Fate shunned it, so when I felt secure,
It let me sip the bitter taste I had tried to purge.

8. My heart rejoiced with it, so joy increased,
As time, so cruel to joy, sought to usurge.

9. I see its day my day, and feel its loss,
For however long estrangement, we will converge.

10. How many friends did I hold, yet the fates
With death, severed the ties our hands would forge!

11. How can life be clear, when his tribe and friends
Vanish, and he sees not their tracks emerge?

12. By Allah, they carried one eve, to a home,
A hidden tent, safe from harm and outrage.

13. With generosity it spread its carpets,
And goodness and kindness its portals did charge.

14. Naught but chastity and what contents
The Lord, not disobedience, behind curtains lies submerged.

15. The night's darkness comes moist, the fasting of days
Keeps its instincts burning, attractions emerge.

16. It ransomed me, however it wished, not how I wished,
To ransom me - what prior was predestined and purged.

17. Had I been just, caring for it,
And matched its grace with what it deserved,

18. I would race my soul in kindness, matching its sorrow,
And dusk and dawn for it cares would converge.

19. It quenched a grave in which I am restless,
Its pillars not calm, its lightnings surge.

20. Sadness pours from it, its sunsets quench their thirst,
Its dawns and horizons knowledge disgorge.

21. If you vanish from my eyes, many vanish,
While hearts' visions roam freely without verge.