1. I asked you, O rock of tryst
When will time reunite what it parted

2. O Kaaba, you witnessed two yearners
Who found their way to its beautiful heights

3. When time binds with its decrees
We will take the path marked on its back

4. Passion softened there, exhausted
With the breeze there being tired out

5. The sea cast its waves towards you
But you resisted its bright blue currents

6. Your sides blocked them angrily
As if an tied lion was angered

7. We read on you the book of life
And passion revealed its hidden secrets

8. We see the sun melting in the ocean
And we wait for the full moon to rise

9. When the west spreads its clothes
Releasing in the soul what it released

10. We say, "Has the sun dyed it
Staining it with its spilled blood

11. Or is the west like a wounded heart
Having seekers that try to meet it?"

12. O eyes that wept behind this cloud
A youth and morning gone tender

13. O image in the sides of the clouds
We saw our drowned worries in it

14. God has given us an image in our conscience
That the young man sees whenever he bows

15. He sees the image of bleeding passion
That has not ceased, inflamed and burning

16. But loyalty refuses to be extinguished
And remembrance refuses to show mercy

17. O rock of the covenant, the sea foamed
And met you raging and scowling

18. And the wasteland neighbor you knows suspicions
When thought verifies them within it

19. I see in the foam life's struggle
And its foolish, violent current

20. And I glimpse in it the strife of men
When boat chases boat

21. And how in the expanse of this realm
We make it a narrow passage

22. I stood by the sea, asking myself
With worries far away, engrossed

23. Did God, before creating life
Intend waves to be created on the sea?

24. And did He represent in the wasteland the riddle of doves
Whose deepest secret we've not yet discovered?

25. I see in the whiteness of the sands
Old age and the pale, unsettling shroud

26. I see in the mirage the delusions of souls
And hopes struck down and fluttering

27. And God made this rock to stand
Between life and decay, causing destruction

28. And He represented in it the arrogance of ages
That will not be violated or created

29. Life wants to meet death
But God does not permit the meeting

30. And O rock of the covenant, I came to you
When fate tore apart what it tore apart

31. I show you the old age of the martyred heart that the parting crowned with gray
It complained of its captivity in the fetters of passion

32. And bid farewell, wishing God to set it free
So when fortune undid the bonds

33. It inclined to its captivity, released
For whom did God adorn this sky

34. Or beautify the universe or arrange it?
For whom does dawn shine on its horizon

35. Appearing in it bright and delicate?
For whom did this breeze touch the clouds

36. Making them gently murmur what murmured?
Whenever the doves mention him

37. Or the fair maidens applaud him
The lone bird of the soul passes

38. Returning from the watering place
But your Lord did not create this for that

39. Rather for two spirits who took flight in one horizon