1. Until the eye ceases to weep, weeping continues
As if the sadness in which it ends has no end

2. O time, you have betrayed me, you have betrayed me
I did not think you were so little loyal

3. If enumerating my possessions could help me
Or hiding them would lessen this concealment

4. My hopes have died and when they died
I lived for despair, not for hope

5. I have become reluctant towards all I desire
Alas! There is no satisfaction like acceptance

6. How can I console my heart for what has passed?
Woe to a heart that has no consolation

7. I continued to call a group to guidance
But they went astray, so my long call was fruitless

8. My call was lost when I called them
If I had not wasted it, that call would not have been lost

9. These are ruins that decay has erased
And these are ruins that time has covered

10. Wherever you go you will find a sinner
Crying, weeping, and reluctant to weep

11. They have no morning after morning
Nor an evening after evening

12. There are men in God's care who have passed away
Long has the ground been their shelter

13. Neither that crown after them
Nor the splendor of that kingdom, that splendor

14. Princes tear their prisons apart
And He lets whom He wills inherit His land

15. O Lord, this is the Ka'ba I erected
As a pillar, and this is the seal of the prophets

16. My oppressors have wronged me between them
And it was enough evil to wrong me between them

17. I lost a people whose loss I mourn
But what does my wailing accomplish?

18. They were my succor when I had no succor
They were my growth when I had no growth

19. I say, and tyranny with its calamities
Saddles for the king the steeds of mortality

20. The anguished should not despair of relief
Nor the sick ever of healing

21. Justice is a strong sultan
God supports it with the troops of destiny