1. My heart is restless, anguish intensifies
All our talk has stretched time out endlessly

2. If I had power over death, my life would cease
They sympathized, who's with the determined ally

3. My tears turned aside upon my cheek distracted
And kindled within my withering being the fire of passion

4. Fate betrayed me with hardship and weakness
Our landmarks collapsed, exerting and suffering

5. My heart wandered, a doe of loftiness
Thirsty, like a rain cloud sealed off

6. My life was lost between having and not having
And salvation seems shut off from our faces

7. And the guide clung from my passion and fervor
So the heart sat above the litter of bones

8. I blamed my soul for being completely destitute
And if they buy it, I say “I have nothing in it”

9. My heart was turbulent and churned from my fervor and affliction
And the sea of art foamed with its waves

10. And the pen flowed above the smooth paper
To homes of those who understand melody and discord

11. Oh heart, what has befallen me to slip away
We were left in our worries completely distant

12. My fat melted away from my passion
If we stayed after what we'd agreed upon, distant

13. Oh heart, my wound almost healed entirely
Potions didn't help, or bandages

14. Abu al-Mudawwad after me was in tatters
Dying from my passion without respite or bandages

15. Oh shelter, why did you constrict opportunity
Obey my opinion and permit what we're scarcely able to

16. He said to me, “I won't be absent long
We can't bear patience and solace, we're scarcely able”

17. Oh heart, if only now my voice would shake the earth
The disobedient among them wouldn't panic at all from us

18. If only my tears were a torrential flood
The Turks wouldn't be saved from us at all

19. Obey me, this is no more than an opportunity, draw near
And be warned, patience for a man is provision

20. Al-Mamduh Pasha said to me, “Draw near
Take on their worries, for all is provision”

21. I said, “Their minds are full of hallucinations
They divided up and our purse paid the debts”

22. He said, “May your happiness in fate be when worries cease
The land of Syria will show goodwill to your face”

23. I said, “My happiness is to strap on my sword belt
When we were at Uthman's, the hunting dog grew up”

24. If I had attacked them, it would have been sweeter
Than drinking the honey of hunting dogs

25. He said, “Blaming the self brings no solutions
Taste the flavor of the Turks, O rotten boy”

26. If they were chopped up the day they wailed, no problems
Would have brought the silk clothes or children

27. I said, “My quarter that drove me to misery
—Their chiefs—locusts multiplied”

28. He said, “Better than graves and problems
They're with the weakling, stripped naked”

29. The net wouldn't have caught any fish the day it was cast
If those oath-swearers were trusted

30. I said, “They grew old in their prime, worrying
The rabble played above the dams”

31. They lost maidens like worrying old men
And reckoned without any marked roads

32. Oh heart, whoever walked foremost
If we had a thousand horsemen from the Edeyyat

33. See how the quarter left me walking first
And I spent the night, my friend, from the oppression of comrades

34. He said, “Finally, a revelation sent down
By the right of the Creator of stars and thickets

35. Who was it brought man from his home
With a trumpet, not embracing and a friend to thickets

36. I said to him, “Oh heart, maybe our worries will disappear
And we'll return to the land of steeds”

37. He said, “More distant than the sea from his homeland
Yet still our wound festers, bound tight”

38. I said to him, “Ayyub before me was tested
And Joseph the truthful returned to Jacob”

39. He said, “They were unshakable in purpose
Not like your purpose—the foolish are confused”

40. They are people of determination and loyalty
While you are people of inadequacy and integrity

41. They don't compare to what they decorated and elevated
Nor tasted after sweetness harsh integrity

42. He said, “You're like yourself, people of the opportunity
The Bedouins, see how they left you as ashes”

43. How often the unjust judge ruled against opportunity
By one who doesn't see with his eyes—he has cataracts

44. Except your Lord in secret supreme
Who permits it from above lawful accord

45. May He have mercy on one who falls, calling from the height
And sees before him the terror of death knotted

46. After this, I roused my indignation intensely
My intention, to fulfill my wish

47. Against them the brass stirrups all
And the helmets studded like hailstones

48. And they bow down to the ground and give him hailstones
Make them prostrate on the ground of our misery

49. And block their road from me with barricades
Take your taxes and take your property

50. The guest with the Turks isn't driven away
In the morning, from the cedars, rise for me

51. Indignation suppressed like the pigeons
And cut down the mounts there where all

52. Bow down to the ground and host him pigeons
From dawn when the caller declares “God is great”

53. Rebel from among Brother Shaykh's pillars
They have no sanctuaries in the land of the Turks

54. Slaughter them, draw near before pigeons
To Aleppo they go through wasteland and plain

55. And I thought they'd find a frozen body on the threshold
Satisfied, settled, hello and welcome

56. And relieved in Syria, their destination is coolness
The next day when night and shadows mixed

57. They turned me back atop the columns
And they cut down the beauty of our minaret and it leaned over

58. Prince Qais the lion, wader in thickets
Residing in Lebanon, crown of loftiness

59. Special privilege of highest rank, father and grandfather
After they brought the coins, even if to

60. The one from our rulers who has money and fervor
Take comfort and return my mounts

61. And explain to him how we were left uncivilized
And manliness they inherited from those

62. Special privilege of highest rank among the uncivilized
Cry out and call the magnificent prince

63. Mustafa from the family of Raslan, the noble horses
Unraveling hardships from grievances, ah!

64. None like us falters among horses
The knight of knights, shepherd of loftiness

65. Nature's most noble, from a lineage of horses
If he scolds you, it satisfies you, if he says no or yes

66. With nobility, he scatters coins and horses
The champion of the age, eminent prince

67. Master of banners, when supplies run out
Cut down cypress branches, their luster is in splendor

68. Stupefying the enemy, very thick branches
The noble one doesn't ask when you need

69. Only your glance and he fulfills wishes
I thought you weren't preoccupied with our matter

70. Or in the land of the Turks, after us, wishes
Respond, oh lord of the mountain, to one who stumbled

71. The gallant doesn't refuse one fallen in thickets
He relieves the drowning, a foot slips

72. Others understand the captive's every wish
If your call didn't let us taste sweetness

73. I must spread the banner, blackness
The captive, his body melted and collapsed

74. His mind wandered, lost amid the blackness
Then pray for the Messenger, the chosen

75. Mustafa, sent before and after
To inspire the sultan with a chosen order

76. To return the likes of me to his homeland