1. Oh companion, if not for the torment of taxes
We would not be chained in these shackles

2. I would not be standing in grief
Lost from a gathering in the shade

3. Each day I have a journey and departure
To the villages like the travels of nomads

4. On my shoulder the difficult luggage as if
I'm a perfume seller to the women with bottles

5. It's a seizing but a seizing of the heart
It's a preoccupation but a preoccupation of mind

6. In laziness, if the people of Qarou possessed it
They would all become senile

7. Oh what an awful journey that has darkened
My honor, face, and grace

8. In it my manners and ethics deteriorated until
If an enemy saw me one day, he would have pity on me

9. Then after that they made me
A witness in their bureau of the absurd

10. With those whom obligations tremble from
And men walk the walk of mountains

11. How could I not break from the pressure of
A people who wanted to slap me and pluck my mustache

12. And my companion is Dilasi, the bucket of religion
While I am rags from rags

13. If they came to him with the script of Noah's son
He would say this is my script and words

14. Amongst a people if I said I was the son of Avicenna
They would spit in Al-Ghazali's moustache

15. Among them is the great Sir, the abundant
Suweid and Zughbar the son of Imagination

16. This one calls, the Prince said seek the bureau
And hurry with the food scale

17. So we go to him while he is astonished
With a nose high above the ministry

18. So his guards call out, collect but
Do not collect without the order of the Minister

19. And beware that you never clean a harvest
With a plank in the wind or a water skin

20. So I call out, if it's inevitable
Then collect it with the prowess of garbage collectors

21. And avoid the blowing wind so that
You do not find it like the ruins of homesteads

22. A job I never collect sustenance from
Except through the cleverness of the unemployed

23. And I wish I was self-sufficient one day from it
Without it being on me or for me

24. Oh you who has not stopped gazing
With eyes that make the kohl seller rich

25. Every slap has consequences of benefit
So bare it even if I arm it, I do not care