1. I visited her abode after many years apart
Her traces stirred longing's embers in my heart

2. By your father's life, I found no peace in Salma
Nor solace in homes where I oft took shelter

3. A love like fate, knowing no end
Or destiny's charge when it does rend

4. I've not pledged to one I loved, till I kept
My vow and fulfilled what I myself set

5. Some people recall, then forget
While I have naught but recall left yet

6. I guard my beloved as love is but
A trust of the noble and loyalty of the free

7. If the betrayer plots, I say to my heart
I protect you from his plotting and his art

8. My soul, be not a horse for treachery
Or channel for deceit and perfidy

9. Guard yourself if you're free indeed
Consult your mind in every deed

10. Respect all rights but yours, betray no one
Don't forsake your rights, fearing harm will come

11. When one is wronged, one needs
A sword and steed that fiercely leads

12. He who leaves his rights, without a fight
Is like one who leaves his honor, lacking might

13. We've seen rulers, but we've not seen
Rule of justice or judgment fair and clean

14. Ignorance rules its sons, however it may,
With tyranny and harm come what may

15. Gentler in hurt and closer in guidance brought
Further from quarreling and insult fraught

16. Have you not seen how tyranny's become
The way of rule, in every kingdom under the sun?

17. The rightly guided ones are gone in eras past
Relate their tales if you know them well, and last

18. Stop me in eastern ruins and recall
Al-Farooq's guidance, and Umar's era all

19. Describe not civilization, for I
See the age of civilization as most vile to the eye

20. It harms kingdoms, no barrier avails
Or for kingdom's sons, no escape trail

21. We thirst for a life that pours
With currents abundant and pure as yours

22. Hopes wander there, swim in pleasure and cleanness
Galloping aspirations seek it, east and west witness

23. I saw a people firm of will progressing on
Mounting in demands, every hardship donning

24. Plunging in the struggle, dust laden, unafraid
Deaths of black and red by determination made

25. Some of the world melt in fear
When the brave sally forth mornings near

26. Loving his life, greedily keeping it longer
He meets death, fearful and no stronger

27. The steeds of valor, from it shy
With the roar of cowardice and flight

28. If you see your fate doubtful, then drive it away
With will of granite, resolute display

29. You'll never live sweetly if taste isn't bitter
Plagues of the Nile and ills too many to number

30. Brace and mend its pillars, bring it no shroud or grave
Let no east wind secretly wave

31. I stand watching the mourners, nothing have I
Except wondering, would that I knew why

32. To Egypt's youth I say, I have taken off
My own youth and wound up my days left