1. I respond to your call, O summoner of passions, from a summoner
You have heard my heart even if you misheard my hearing

2. Command me as you wish, I will attain everything
My hand can reach, for I am listening and aware

3. No, by your Lord, I do not listen to blaming
Nor allow the sanctuary of my heart to be deceived

4. I am a man whose resolve is not returned by blaming
Nor does the splendor of glory cease to please me

5. I act with sincere loyalty in love
That does not suspect when slandered with turning away

6. For love my being is a cave in which it takes refuge
From the betrayal of everyone evil and low

7. I spent my precious soul in love to one
Stingy with the purity of affection and denying

8. I complain to him but he does not listen to my excuse
Without fault, his soul suspected or incited

9. Woe to him from a need that has obsessed
My heart but whose attainment has eluded my pursuer

10. I strive for it while it is not humbled before me
And how can one reach the status of the aspiring star?

11. O excellent is a draught of the water of affliction
And a rest upon the cool sands in the wasteland

12. And a breeze that carries the fragrance of eternity
The scent of flowers from weathered ruins and knolls

13. O would that I meet in that living place
With my loved ones, my people and followers

14. And that I race my steed in the hunt
For the glancing gazelle in the green meadow

15. Abodes in which I was happily reveling
Among my boys and followers

16. When I gestured to them for a need, they rushed
To fulfill it before my gesture returned

17. The eloquent fear my tongue before my act
And the army thunders at my name before my strike

18. But today my arrows have no piercing heads
When I shoot, nor does my sword cut

19. I spend the nights in a crumbling shack
That has reached the summit of ruggedness and dilapidation

20. The rain pelts its gable to make it wander confusedly
And the wind batters its sides with loud crashes

21. Its peak remains dry while its base is
Crowned with dew with which the shepherd grazes his flock

22. When lightning flashes, its crest seems
A reckless hero armored with solid plates

23. Almost touching the sun while detaining
The moon from journeying on and rising

24. In it I remain a stranger far from home, distressed
Tossing in anguish, grief and pains

25. Without a boon companion or confidante to assist me
Against worries when they surge and rage

26. Whoever sees me laughing lightly thinks
I am carefree while my worries are in my ribs

27. No, by your Lord, I have no patience with separation
Nor is my endurance acquiescent

28. Rather I control my resolve and await
A command from God that will heal the pain of my hurts

29. I restrain the flowing of my tears in fear
Of the watcher while my heart is bursting with sorrow

30. So if my fortune acted against me and abandoned me
A hostage of grief after flourishing

31. Still in Egypt I have brothers gladdened
By my proximity, and who admire my verse and creativity