1. O you who cry over an abode with suppressed weeping
And the crying over an abode is from anguish

2. I have wasted tears over a rock
And lost patience over a tent peg

3. So store it fearing an affliction may descend
Did you feel secure today from the turns of tomorrow?

4. It is your eye that had it not weep
Your eyelids would have punished you with wakefulness

5. So you came to the water to change it
While the water is a demise that did not obstruct

6. So woe to yourself if you return
And woe to it if you do not come back

7. I came and said I will kiss him
Even if death lies in ambush

8. So I sipped from a cup smiling
More delicious and sweet than honey

9. O where is patience so I may recite it
And my staff to point to endurance

10. The loved ones blamed me and with them
Is my heart they took and did not return

11. And the sickness alienated me from them
So I remained without a heart and without a body