1. Do not deny me, for I have no solace without the lost one,
On the day we parted, and no patience with the present.

2. My life, however long it lasts, is not life to me,
Without my distant brother in Mahmud.

3. We were two souls in one body,
Among people, and two branches in one tree,

4. Accustomed companions whom the vicissitudes of time
Did not divide or disperse.

5. So fate has pained me with parting, as
The taste of colocynth pains my eye with tears.

6. And I pray to God with his power
To bring me near to the distant shrine of Harran Ma'mud.