1. Each day brings unfamiliar sorrows,
And strange joys that make you forget all joys,

2. Confusion like straying in the dark of night,
Alone, with no companion or friend.

3. And going astray from the right path, so forbearing,
Like a fool, erring like one stricken with calamity.

4. Eyes brimming with tears
And hearts stuffed with sorrow.

5. Sins from time, for it has lived
Long without any sins.

6. And the events of these nights have cast me
When they cast me with afflictions of the hearts.

7. In a kingdom I ruled and was intimate with,
Or a friend or companion or relative.

8. Cry over these abodes that I
Have no respondent among its people.

9. These adversities have come restricting
Between my heart and every loved one.

10. And they have taken from me all that is precious
And kept every kin away from me.

11. And if I complain of what is in me, I complain
To every burdened and troubled soul.

12. A goal with time, speaking sometimes with
Misfortunes and sometimes with laments.

13. Rejoicing in living while having nothing
Of it he desires to meet people.