1. O brother of Al-Harith bin Ka'b bin 'Umar
Do you fast months or just days?

2. This blessed month has been so long
That we feared it would be binding

3. They titled it the seal of beauty
Though if they were fair it would be a cup

4. How many healthy claimed illness in it
And how many sick, their nights standing in prayer

5. Staying sitting to pray by day
And spending their nights standing in devotion

6. And better to me than safety
Is an illness for the youth permitting the unlawful

7. Twenty seven days have passed
Where we only visit pleasures occasionally

8. The roses wouldn't reproach us if they stayed
Or saw us fasting and fasting

9. They'd pass by us distractedly as though we'd met
Beyond them only frivolity or drinking wine

10. God has taken vengeance on you for a friend
You didn't leave him until he became disgraced

11. You wronged him with the love of Su'ad
And the noble passions wrong even the noble

12. We loved as you loved though our love and your love
Would have remained had you remained faithful

13. Break your fast prosperously, I consider
Breaking the fast in separation from one I love a sin

14. I see this whole lifetime as one Ramadan
Or my breaking the fast will be lovesickness