1. Yesterday has passed and the world will pass quickly
For the days of life have no permanence

2. Yesterday has passed, I did not know you except as a tale
With appearances of hypocrisy as its facade

3. Are you my beloved? My complaints about you are long
And a hopeless, weary passion has lasted long

4. You travel from Helwan in the morning just to see
A friend in Heliopolis find comfort

5. And you stay with me for a couple of moments anxiously
Then you leave as if being with me is just air

6. My hopes which I placed in you are now lost
And there is no hope to be found in the unfaithful

7. If the trusting soul believes their words
They respond with lying promises and do wrong

8. A tortured heart battles me over you
With misery and toil from my love of you

9. When I pacify it with patience from you, it imagines
From your brilliance, stars as intercessors

10. With every gesture from your youth, banners
Cry out like the dawn's rays shining bright

11. If I say an eye like eyes, they rebel
Sorceresses whom their command is fate

12. And if I say a cheek like cheeks, yours glow
With your cheek the night of union shines bright

13. And if my eyes roam over your figure, rays shine
Rays atop which glory and beauty rise high

14. Smile at me alone, you spoke truthfully, so what
Clouds a soul in which you are pure clarity

15. I am jealous so my heart will not betray, and it
Witnesses that people betray me

16. Your beauty turned back a group
Of oppressors, they left in loss and in plague

17. When you come from Helwan to visit me
Hearts collapse and turmoil spreads

18. Your beauty is for me alone, and I am a poet
If he says a word, poets bow down

19. You spite me by rejecting on purpose. Love pardoned
My soul pardoned you, my beloved, as sacrifice

20. You recoiled like a fleeing gazelle, losing its guide
As a hunter appeared and danger drew near