1. You were absent, but passion did not disappear
Sleeping after you is forbidden

2. O inhabitants of Najd, peace be upon you
From a lover who sends you greetings

3. One who dies after being separated
From the likes of you is not to be blamed

4. Why did you not have mercy on one
Who meets destruction because of you

5. To God belong my days in grief
And whatever the tents contained

6. If you are absent from me, still
Sorrow and sickness do not disappear

7. So it is as if after you
I am a weaned child again

8. I sacrifice people who deprived
My eyes of sleep though they slept

9. I relax whenever a dove
Coos on the branches