1. My friends who left knowledge behind
And bid me farewell, leaving me in pain

2. Equipped my heart with endless sorrow
And replaced my body with sickness and health

3. Why did they not curb the violence of fate?
I heard them mention the covenant and oath

4. They slept while my heart intended
To divide it between separation, so it was divided

5. The people of Najd were not harmed before they left
That the time of connection would not be cherished

6. We were, and they were, and the relationship was united
And the connection was connected, and the estrangement estranged

7. So I became, among the people of separation, full of longing
My tears will not be satisfied unless they become blood

8. They said I regretted the past days
So I said, why would I not show regret?

9. The clouds poured over the slopes of Damascus
To the valley of al-Khuzam, watering the lost and guided

10. Without overtaking the green thickets
Until it revives the ruins of settlements and tents

11. O guide of the caravan, do not graze in the land of Salam
Nor in Najd in the time of bliss and tradition

12. Head for the noble and virtuous Caliph
Receiving the delegates with a smile, illuminated by a shining light

13. That teacher, Abdullah, more generous than
One who gave, and more noble than the ground itself

14. Of complete and praised merits, his conduct
Is sublime, proud, knowledgeable and scholarly

15. Fasting by day, standing by night, reciting when
Eyes sleep, the night darkens and becomes still

16. Your eyes find peace seeing him
As if he were the full moon in the sky of heaven

17. God brought him as a light to dispel darkness
And he was a secret of secrets, concealed

18. By God, by God, if you see his features
Do not cover your palm until you cover your foot

19. And make your visit to him sincerely for God
And adhere to His rope after God

20. God is Greatest! This is better than one
Whose doctrines were prided, this is the master of knowledge

21. He whose insight makes things clear
As if he hides the unseen, having already known