1. Have you not seen that the Caliph has deviated me
With his mosque and palace, I have naught to do with the palace

2. So he has barred me from a mosque I delight in
Where I indulge in singing and wine

3. And he imposed on me the afternoon and afternoon prayers
So woe to me from the afternoon prayer and woe from the afternoon

4. I pray them reluctantly elsewhere than my mosque
So I have no reward from the afternoon prayer and the afternoon

5. He imposes repentance on me after I have grown old
With which he may remove the heavy burdens of my sins

6. Indeed there used to be frequented mosques in my people
And my chest was never eased on crowded days in them

7. By Allah I have no intention in his prayers
Nor righteousness, benevolence and good from my affairs

8. And by Allah it does not harm him, Allah forgives his sins
If the sins of all beings were upon my back