1. What an adversity and tribulation she underwent!
As if the vicissitudes of fate revolved against her

2. If my anguish took physical form, it would flow
As a sea with surging, billowing waves

3. For sorrow has inflamed eyelids
As though flashes of lightning were embedded in them

4. Look, O kindred souls, at this melancholy -
Its era severed the cord of devotion

5. Hearts refuse to be described
So I will not describe what is in my heart

6. I was wary of calamities, but my wariness was futile
When I attained what I had feared in my life

7. Where is he who conversed with me in my night solitude?
When I was alone, conversing with him

8. As if fate enticed me, only to betray me
That is why worries never ceased to burden me

9. I never imagined my friend would abandon me
Against my will, and I would not abandon him

10. We were like two arms, each supporting the other
Balanced, even reinforcing one another

11. Yet we turned like two sides that cannot see
One another, or meet face to face

12. Like Suhail and Suhayl, separated by the vastness
Of the revolving celestial sphere

13. Such is the nature of fate - its waters are never sweet
Except when its sources are muddied