1. The light of our life shone like flashes of lightning
On the watcher, among the drinking vessels of Bishah

2. Yes, I am a lover stationed there
With one who neither draws near nor comes close

3. The one whose aloofness I complain of and whose love
Is intertwined with one who loves to toy with love

4. May God forgive Umm Al-Walid! Don't you see
How my love tumbles down because of me?

5. She longs for one who nearly took her life
The morning she aimed her traveling party towards me

6. Whenever a rider comes from your land and passes by
I become sick from my intention to love

7. So they brought a healer and charms
And said a skilled doctor is here

8. He came and treated me though his stay with me was long
Exhausted by incantations and doctoring

9. Of no use was what the skillful doctor tied
Nor what the experienced physician wished for me

10. Nor the potions he washed me with when
The fateful star appeared to me

11. They left after the bridge at Lubnak was gone
The ground soaked, the bricklayers confused

12. You think, with unfounded guesses
That he and his rider are searching for Mecca

13. No - by Him who touched the corners of His house
As I circle with those who circle and crush around

14. I forgot you as long as Thabeer stayed
In his place, as long as the crushed remains by the crusher