1. O ruins of the abandoned camp, where are the people and where are the graceful gazelles?
Alas for the camels that carried our souls on the day they departed, they are now wandering with the herds.

2. I kissed the hands of their riding beasts to detain them from traveling, though they did not feel my kisses.
I said, “O caravan of Layla, get married, perhaps the hearts will return to their first habits.”

3. Where is Layla to me after she moved away, leaving me standing at the ruins?
I don’t love the house except for the love of its dweller, nor the mounts except for the lady camel rider.

4. My life would have been good if the people of Al-Aqeeq got close and they continued to be intimate.
Stop blaming me and excuse me with their mention, for sometimes bodies get cured with sickness.

5. I plead to God about a people who departed with the fever, and I don’t say “if only” for something that has passed.
Except for the son of Al-Hussein, I seek to kiss a hand in the deep sea that does not benefit the drowning.

6. Do not seek certainty after seeing it in the crescent, it does not avail you like Saturn.
God is the Greatest! This is Yathrib offering itself to the visitors, and this is the seal of the Messengers.

7. When the evil ones went astray, their leader said: “Do you not see the shine of the brilliant planet?”
Go to the Mount and the valley while before you is the fire of the son of Imran on the night of the mountain.

8. Then the obedient camel turned away his call, Shuwsha, and broke the rods of the withered palm trees.
Blessed is the face that settled in a country except it made the heavy rain pour.

9. People come to him in groups from a group, and delegations will continue to come to him in succession.
O best of those a female carried, and the best caregiver over the world who is highborn.