1. O you who travel with yearning, when
His longing for homeland troubles him,

2. I entrusted you with words and trust, which
Are only entrusted to every trustworthy one.

3. Convey to Baghdad, if you lodge therein,
From me an eloquent conveyance of messages

4. That it is the question and the purpose, even if
My body is in other than its land in the morning,

5. And that the distant one has come near for us
And what was not ripe has ripened from it.

6. And his longing to arrive therein was stirred,
And I have attained the purpose of my time.