1. The abodes of Sharadim have become inhabited by newcomers,
Alas for you while you are desolate and empty.

2. The abodes of "the passersby" have become inhabited,
While houses whose exorbitant price made their people sell have been demolished.

3. Zeal for the sanctuary makes the passionate person sacrifice himself,
While the enemy of money spends it.

4. The vacant houses appeared sad,
Surrounded by thorns and weeds.

5. It is as if their balconies are covered with dust;
The ghosts of sorrows stood before me.

6. O you who pass on the road, look
And observe the vicissitudes of time.

7. These lonely houses, their pillars
Used to be surrounded by the staff of travel.

8. The fire of the villages was kindled by the plundering newcomer.
These are the abodes of every Samaidha',

9. Yearning for the preservation of his forest den.
These are the abodes of every welcoming one

10. Who girds his cloak for hospitality.
And this one whom you now lament in poetry

11. Can be seen to have enjoyed an enviable prosperity.
This dispersed one used to be the hope of the seeker

12. And a dwelling for the farthest travelers.
Alas! Hunger has destroyed your stateliness,

13. O source of youths and heroes.
O source of the group who

14. Were characterized by generosity, wisdom, and fighting.
Some groups were preserved for the days of joy,

15. While misfortunes befell the homelands.
But your sons were preserved for a terrible day,

16. Of taxation, famine, and fighting.
Those arms that have been weakened

17. Are arms that idleness has made powerless.
And I stood at your spring, standing

18. In a way whose memory cannot be erased from my mind.
As for the watercourse within you, it

19. Has dried up, and a course of sands intersected it.
My tongue tires of speaking because of the violent turmoil

20. Within it, so the state of affairs has aided it.
I examined the position of my companion and found him

21. To be judicious while in anxious confusion.
The perception of the perceptive and their peers

22. Is pained to see the country in this condition.
And I looked around and found that everything

23. Conveys to me a sense of negligence.
O inhabitants of Al-Ghraf, who is capable

24. Of bringing you the words of an eloquent poet?
Or shall I send to you the comforting hope

25. That I, like you, have shattered hopes?
I am like you, I have surrendered all my feelings

26. To despair, which takes them in every situation.
The bitter cups you have drunk are in the custody of history,

27. In the custody of generations.
I said to the few good people among them,

28. "Show me some deeds to match some of your words."
"First, the people's despair has made them clamor;

29. Fear the lethal consequences of their despair.
What prevents the masters from thinking

30. Of the fate of slaves and partisans?
A people who walked while their rule

31. Was always at odds with forms."
"More destructive for a nation than a famine

32. Of years is a famine of men."
"A people whom their enemy wanted to seduce and disintegrate,

33. While their sons are torn limb from limb."
"The Euphrates was preoccupied with its injustice, forgetting

34. The south and north of Iraq."
"And if you ask for mercy, their answer is,

35. 'What is it to hearts in pain and anguish?'"