1. How much disease nearly killed me
Yet I kill the disease though it wasn't hidden

2. Grief is greater than patience that makes it easy
Never shall you see me being patient in it

3. You are signs for whom I weep and wail
For I bewail Islam and the Arabs

4. It is fitting for the eye to turn white from sorrow
When it completes a tenth of the tear's places

5. While we hope for the good ending
Of our exhausted nation though the result was bad

6. We stayed in a land that we still inhabit
Enduring humiliation, misfortunes and troubles

7. Arise and build me a ladder to salvation
To the heavens or beneath the earth a burrow

8. Oh youth of Arabs, of Kais and Yaman
Has what we are in not matured for you a sprout

9. We laugh and cry painfully everyday
Seeing in its affair a strange wonder

10. By His grace and the grace of those who work by it
We were made instead of the forehead, the tail

11. "My sons; I implore you warn me of my blood"
If I uncover for you the veil of your affair

12. What has the wicked soul suggested to you
And you both did the most virtuous mother and father wrong

13. Taste the torment that your hands have earned
So is everyone hostage to what they have earned

14. Leave this be and continue what you have started
Perhaps the slanderer has ruined it with lies

15. How much has the words been distorted with malice
And he built on his love edifices and structures

16. And many a misery of sorrow overflowed their tears
So the plants of misery stirred in their chests and quaked

17. Worry has brandished its face so when you see him
Deem him clad in worry without cloak

18. He recited saying and dawn was smiling
Speech that ignites the flame in the heart of the passionate

19. We used to exclaim glorifying our might
What do we say? Might has been snatched from us

20. Arise and raise your voice proclaiming God's greatness
For in it is the meaning of wailing if you wail grievously