1. She appeared like the sun rising after being veiled
I stood amazed by the beauty of her appearance

2. Her glances rang out and then she left
Leaving my heart cloven by swords

3. She walked, and shook her stature
Adorned with a soft, flowing robe

4. White, delicate, her figure graced
By braids, four, let down in tresses

5. I barely escaped love, O most chaste
Had I been present when Saad appeared

6. A sun, when it rises or sets on me
Stars of my tears appear in my eyelids

7. A passionate lover attained the means of joy
Weeping at the sight and sound of Saad

8. If you would permit me a glance in our separation
Fires blazing in my ribs would be quenched

9. I feared after being cautious what
I hadn't feared, oh my soul be patient

10. Oh my days with the heat of passion
By God, oh days of fever, return

11. When youth was verdant and my life was bliss
And Saad's promise unbroken

12. I spent seasons of passion and forgot her
Except for glances from those four eyes

13. I don't forget, I don't forget the fever and our camping
In its shade the fever was quenched from the waterskin

14. Saad walks among her friends
Like the full moon among glittering stars

15. I remembered days of bliss and bit
My finger in grief for their loss

16. In days of comfort I slept beneath its wing
A child's sleep in the wet nurse's arm

17. When spring withholds I water
Those meadows with my tears

18. We enjoyed your company a while, and today
Parting came, I said: Oh soul, be steadfast

19. The days have stricken me, bearing the burden
Of passion, have you lauded my defeat?

20. And left me perplexed, living like one
Lost at night on the empty plains

21. All my strength is dead within me
Except my hopes, which live with me

22. Though all means of passion are cut
Your ropes are unsevered and hold strong

23. I would have turned from love of you to another
Had another love been a refuge for me

24. Oh soul, after my death, visit her abode
And pray with the kneeling spirits within

25. Imagine yourself there in the form of a dove
Fall upon the walls, then moan and wail

26. You will find souls there jostling
Like fluttering doves in pairs

27. I know Saad is inclined
To love songs, so if you moan, she will respond

28. Oh soul, fear not the approach of demise
In it lies the comfort of the anguished

29. There is no difficulty in the path of death
One who dies walks an easy road

30. Whenever I look back, life seems
A figure facing me with darkened face