1. My inward parts lamented and wept the day of parting
So I let the pearls of my soul flow freely without price

2. And I was distressed at saying farewell, then said
I entrust my heart to God after those who have hurt me

3. A houri who turns with sleepy eyelids
She had not used kohl except for the dawn and evening

4. And separation - woe to me from its pangs
Rest does not cure the disease that has spoiled the body

5. O you, I am still perturbed by time
So I see in it neither peace nor rest

6. And the sand grouses do not cease strutting around me
Sometimes towards Syria and sometimes towards Yemen

7. Woe to desires - how miserable I am with them and I see
The young man tested by the unattainability of things

8. Thirst made our nights in that time long
A life that was smooth and a life that was rough

9. When thirst was a meadow of singing, morning did not come
Except with cheeks as branches and cheeks as flowers

10. And life was sweeter than your cup of love
Sprinkled - your cheeks resembled the new moon

11. Sweet in taste and its worries were not sweet
And bitter not granting favors or trials

12. And he said about time - who can describe its turns
Except one who drinks the cup of death from it

13. It is a carrier that does not respond to its rider
The swimmer lost his way at dawn in its midst

14. It tossed from the family into its depths and flooded over
A sea we sailed its ships upon

15. And we were in fear until we reached
Safety, security, faith and bounty

16. Where dew does not conceal in its flowing
And does your outstretched hand conceal?

17. And forbearance until the obedient think
That honey is for him from those who disobeyed

18. And nothing prevents you from a land you decide to devastate
The son of Sword-brandishing woman, that you will not conquer me

19. And I am not limited in the territory of one whose craftsmanship
Is the perfume of Sanaa, Akkar or Aden

20. His light is not hidden and his praise is not hidden
The people of greatness knew after imprisonment

21. I am detached from this world and its ignorant ones
For us - and forgive one who shed our blood

22. No fault if fault was found in his light except
That I forgot family and homeland through it

23. My Master O son of Ali - glory preceded you
With it - deeds of Ismael and Al-Hassan

24. If time kept me from you without reins
Then time betrays man however much he feels safe from it

25. And if I hoped for help from others in ignorance without loyalty
Those who worship idols have preceded me

26. And I am not ungrateful for the blessings I was granted
Which follow each other even if time disappears

27. So everyone who disbelieves in blessings, they will perish him
Unless it was a gown, it would have been his shroud

28. I ransom the times for you, rather its people made it live, so live through it
And your enviers - so they are in illness and fury

29. So if I kill an illness that has no cure
A heart that harbors hatred and sorrows

30. Do they deny you days you dominated over enemies
Or established religious duties and traditions?

31. Your hands belittle hopes and they are
Deluded by it, and seize lifespans and they are deceived

32. And you advance the fierce regiments that
Damascus was too narrow for, so how can grief not grieve?

33. He who encounters its tribulations is miserable by it
As if he is the one who carved and sculpted it

34. A war like the war of nights with no weapons
So the brave in it are like the cowards

35. The wise fear you in what you plot
Against the enemies and the ignorant when he wakes up

36. And death has not met what it has not met its doom
It and the soothsayers anticipate misfortunes from astrologers

37. I have abandoned everyone whose loyalty
Does not last - the udder is not abandoned unless the milk is spoiled

38. I took refuge in you - far from you are those
Whose innermost thoughts, if revealed, are seen

39. So blood is shed, the times' antidotes have
Placed your hands here in the abyss of the world

40. And here you bear the burdens of praise and I do not
Think one who drove them back in praise rebelled

41. An inkling from the reflections of thought swimming
Bare, accompanied by neither adornment nor tradition