1. The morning breeze, pass by Na'man's abodes
And let loose my passions and laments for my loved ones

2. And take with you my greetings, fluttering
To meet them, folds of musk and ambergris

3. Reach out to them with loyalty and true love
Find with them every affection and tenderness

4. And if they ask, “How is he wasting away?” tell them
I yearn for what lovers long for in their misery

5. Bear to those sand dunes and open plains
The greeting of a fluttering, fervent heart

6. Gardens where maidens frolic as if in a meadow
Adorned with braids and radiant with crowns

7. Where streamlets of lazuli flow
And every warbling nightingale sings

8. I pine for them though we never meet
But my land and home are next to theirs

9. Do the dwellers of the valley know
That their absence makes my grieving heart suffer?

10. And do my neighbors at al-‘Aqeeq know
That in their separation, carnelian melts in my eyes?

11. The melodies of ath-Thubayb are sweeter to my hearing
Than the sweetest nectar to a thirsty man

12. My body and my tears bear witness to my longing—
One fading, the other overflowing

13. It’s enough fidelity and sincerity for me
To show patience for betrayal or abstain from sin

14. I see them with the eyes of yearning every moment
Neither distance nor others come between us

15. Their image resides in a corner of my heart
Though when I meet them face-to-face they elude me

16. And I have a passion that flows toward the morning breeze
If its breezes blow from them, they give me life

17. So by the One who gives life to the valley slopes!
Stop by the campsites like a caring guardian

18. Pitch their tents on a carpet of emeralds
Strewn with pearls and peridot gems

19. That the palace may shine gloriously in its blossoms
As al-Ma’mun shone surrounded by brocade