1. For whom are the abodes with the radiance of the soul
After time has studied and changed them?

2. I halted my she-camel to ask about them
While my eyes hastened to let tears flow

3. Copiously, as if a she-camel of Rabī‘ brought to me
Its water with its eyes

4. The days of my people, the best people of Suqah
For one who binds on the turban, the miserable and the afflicted one

5. And how good are the easy lives of neighbors when
The winter wind blows and the neighbor you know

6. But when there is backbiting, they
Can redden spear-heads with blood

7. And when there is fighting, they are
Lions when their cubs are threatened

8. And when summoned to battle, they
Love knees on the ground in the bodies

9. After them I lived on, though not immortal
For time has changing colors and aspects

10. God knows what I was ignorant of in their trace
And my recollection of what time has passed, at what moment!