1. I say when the tribe gained independence
And tears flowed from their eyes

2. Like the streaming of rain
From laden clouds offering bounty

3. I force them back from my people
Though my patience is defeated and won’t avail

4. When the sadness lessened from their water
Its overflowing current poured out in plenty

5. For a heart that holds pain caused by them
Oh no, sometimes they cause deep wounds

6. Shall I have patience during separation
Or shall I depart to Salma?

7. So that would be best if I depart
In the morning if they are corrupted

8. More than your command before they amended
So patience when fate disjoins people

9. Is best for one regarding what he hopes for
From now on disregard those who

10. Turned away from the matter when morn shone
They obeyed your abandoning the ardent

11. And feet obey you despite the hardship
And do not grieve for them that an enemy speeded

12. With a matter but they did not hasten
For soon when they reconsider they will know

13. Should I answer you or should he guide you better?
And who is truthful in his words

14. And whose command is urgent and binding
He almost heeded my advice and turned

15. From ignorance, and the guided one succeeds
But misfortune befell him from a concealed passion

16. The least being horse-hooves that wound
So it destroyed him and a corpse lies still

17. With an eye that glances and darts
Beware the protector of their tribe that they avoid

18. And whoever makes their abode his abode leaves
As if their burdens when they departed

19. Were palms over a meandering river
From settlement in a land that has no

20. Barren plain or meadow
Where roots run deep and branches

21. In air yearn and aspire
When the owners recalled the palm trees

22. And said: early ripening makes the choice fruit
It was quick from the two goings of the vine shoots

23. So it illuminated or some of it dried out mature
The critic sees when a man buys