1. They say Lubna is an affliction, before her
You were fine, so don't regret her and divorce her

2. So I obeyed my enemies and disobeyed my advisor
And gladdened the eye of the sneering slanderer

3. I wish, by God's house, that I had disobeyed them
And carried for her pleasure every ruinous thing

4. And I was made to traverse the sea, and the sea was raging
I refused to cling to the planks of a drowning wave

5. It's as if after her I see lovers
Like the dregs of fermented bitter aloe juice

6. So after her my eyes reject every sight
And after her my ears loathe all speech