1. The stranger wept for the loss of home and neighbor
The tears of the weeping stranger flowed

2. The caravan stirred him when they said, “We leave tomorrow”
Or did the glare of that swift lightning disturb him?

3. Or did he spend the night watching a fire kindled with fever?
O kindler of the fire, do not torment with fire

4. Send the breeze with spirits from Yemen
Taking to Damascus that wavering robe

5. So I spent the night while his wounded heart’s feelings
Were perplexed. Should I compose quatrains or quintets?

6. The boon companions slept around me without knowing
That Sameer came, bringing wine and a reminder

7. They recalled the neighborhood of Najd, the day they
Were my home, and the sky my neighbor

8. I melted with yearning for a land that was mine
Alas! How far between my homelands and encampments

9. O you who nurse the illness of Najd’s expanse, prepare the patients
Maybe they will return to me, visiting and caring

10. For I shed my blood for the does of Al Uthayb
And did not ask the eyes for vengeance

11. Were it not for the separation of the band who descended
By the rule of passion, my tears would not reveal my secrets

12. So how does the intention that appeared divide my heart
Split between Unayzah and the empty quarter?

13. O bearer of terrors and perils from Syria to Yemen
Accustomed to bearing dangers and sorrows

14. Greet the neighborhood on my behalf courteously
And tell them when you wake them with my news

15. I saw him circling God’s house among processions
Of pilgrims, visitors, and caretakers

16. And he finished the ritual acts of pilgrimage virtuously
Attaining what he attained of the forgiveness of the Forgiver

17. But he was sorely grieved that he performed Hajj without
Visiting the intercessor of mankind, the elite of the Creator

18. Muhammad, the truthful invitation to Arabs, non-Arabs and Bedouins, then civilized people
The secret of secrets, the essence of essences, the best youth

19. Among the youth of the masters of masters, the virtuous
The repository of beauty and benevolence, the generous one

20. More generous with good than the blowing fragrant breeze
Immersed in his name are all the praises

21. Of knowledge, patience, grace, and altruism
Your greeting to blessed Taif which inclines

22. Toward the neighborhood melodiously with gliding flight
Where the prophecy has pitched its pavilion

23. Upon gardens with rivers flowing through
God is Greater! Independent in His majesty, He who

24. Clothes the naked and exposes the vain of their vanity
Possessor of cosmic delight, holder of guidance’s secret, He of

25. The purified spirit of existence, the Best of the chosen
Jesus’ Bible, with the Torah brought us good tidings

26. Of his mission, supported by the words of the rabbis
And how many authentic prophetic miracles and traces belong to him

27. Like healing the sick, increasing water and making the wild animals and birds sociable
And the staff speaking, and weaving the spider’s web, as

28. The second of two doves laid eggs in the cave
And the limb which spoke to him, and the boulder which softened for him

29. And the clouds which shaded him, and for him the moon split
And milk which copiously poured from his breast

30. And how many noble honors of God’s messengers that
Mankind has not reached a tenth of a tenth in knowing

31. O Savior of the creations from Hellfire when they were
Upon the precipice of a crumbling cliff

32. My ordainment, my hope in tribulations, my
Comfort, my treasure, my ease after hardship

33. Hear these strange, sincere praises with which I do not intend
Attaining houses, gold dinars or wealth untold

34. Rather, I hope from You in both abodes for compassion
And in my stay between abode and abode

35. I haven’t praised You while admitting to shortcoming
Except to alleviate my bonds and burdens

36. And where can my praise of You reach after the praises
Of the highest heavens? What of my rhymes and poems?

37. Upon You the most immaculate prayers of God are everlasting
Remaining for the duration of evenings and dawns

38. The purest fragrances rain upon You and
The emigrants, Family and Helpers and Ansar