1. You left on a journey and saddened us
If only you had set out at daybreak, death would have taken some of us

2. You claimed that separation saddens you, yes
My knowledge will sadden you, not like our sadness

3. Come let us compete to see who of us
Has the firmer hearts or the more tearful eyes

4. The short night seems long to you, how merciful you are
The short night has become long for us

5. None but the sleepless or I know the long night and its sorrow
Unconcerned with our pains, they rebuke us

6. They say why do you rave, we said because of our sin
They gather in circles telling of our deeds

7. The foolish dreams and mocking of us
If my Lord so willed, He would have tested them with what He tested us with

8. They would have been neither for us nor against us
I shall complain to Fadl son of Yahya son of Khalid

9. For your love, perhaps Fadl will unite us
My prince, I saw wealth in its bounties

10. Humiliated, disgraced, resigned to injustice
When the Lord of wealth was stingy, he declared his generosity

11. By saying ‘welcome’ to the emir's wealth and harmed us
And Fadl has raids on the backbone of his wealth

12. You see wealth in it resignedly humiliated
And Fadl has an impenetrable fortress in his hands

13. When he wears the coat of armor and wraps himself
To you Abu Al-‘Abbas, after those who walked

14. On it, we rode the sharp-tongued Hadhrami
Concubines who did not miscarry out of fear

15. And did not know the banging of ships or crying
We shall visit those forbidden to him

16. That he would compensate their visitor for their songs
As if he had a Hanging Garden of Babylon

17. He invited the demons to it to take them to paradise
I am tempted by a Sabaean silk robe

18. In which you see emancipation manifest
Human: Thank you for translating the poem.