1. The helper in my heart for Sauda is unceasing,
He advises my soul regarding her affairs.

2. No flashing lightning lit up the dark clouds,
Nor did patience illuminate the gloom.

3. Neither did the sun shine on the gloomy day,
Nor the full moon radiate its light in the darkness.

4. Neither did the mother of chicks warble for her chicks,
In pleasant weather when the vegetation is green.

5. More beautiful than Sauda on the morning she appeared,
With a face of radiance and joy.

6. By your life! When I pine for another,
And refrain from professing love for her, I have patience.

7. I am jealous that she kisses her husband,
By the life of her father, I am jealous indeed!

8. I say to Amr as he insists on youth,
While we walk the highest path.

9. In the evening, neither reason holds back youth,
Nor do my friends excuse what I have encountered.

10. The kindness of Um Jafar was denied me,
Yet for her kindness I am ever in need.

11. I have made what I endured from her who
On earth I found to be perfidious and treacherous,

12. She who obeyed the one whose love
Made me walk three steps for her sake, yet she is ungrateful.

13. So do not insist, after me, on a lover,
And do not support blaming him, for a lover is deceived.

14. I visit houses adjacent to her house,
While my soul remains in the house I do not visit.

15. I wander, and were it not that I see Um Jafar,
In your homes, I would not wander where I wander.