1. A body I made lean with yearning
And blood I shed in torrents

2. And eyelids I darkened with sleepless vigils
Over the ruins of an encampment now desolate

3. In the tents since you left, I have no life
O madness of a soul obsessed and crazed

4. I ask the sands where my love has gone
But how can the sands tell where he fled?

5. O you who are departing, is there any hope
That you might glance back or pause a while?

6. We offered our cheeks to the mounts’ kisses
But gently, lest they wound our cheeks when they nuzzle

7. How can I stay when the soul has left
The body on the day it departed?

8. Not only did you rob me of my reason
You carried off my heart among your plunder

9. Strange that the winds blew not back his spirit
Though the breath of dawn heals the sick at night

10. The southern winds drew you away from me
While the winds of acceptance blew toward me

11. In my longing I sent my heart to you as messenger
So have mercy, for messengers must not be slain

12. Take pity on one who complained of your distance
To one incapable of empathy or kindness

13. Through you I gained honor, through you disgrace
So marvel at one made mighty, then humbled

14. Passion has sworn to me what glory has sworn
To Abu Bakr Bin Yahya Al-Fadili