1. How many barren deserts have I crossed,
Yet a quarter of you is no desert to me.

2. Your generosity is like a flood, though yours
Is muddy while your calling is not muddied.

3. Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha have passed, and I
Still hope at your door, fasting, unfed.

4. A year has gone by without your bounty, though
A pregnant woman waits for just nine months.

5. Give me but one sea in which to drown you, and
I will repay you with seven seas.