1. Parting from you has brought us intense sorrow
Though you were always busy with important affairs

2. By God, we wonder if the emirate complained
Of your dwelling there or if it was your dismissal

3. Or if fate has enviously treated you poorly
In any case, you alternately rise and fall

4. I leave you with good will for whatever
Ill-treatment or affliction you may experience

5. So do not blame me for leaving, for I am determined
To undertake a journey from which no mounts return

6. We have a journey no riding beasts complete
Except what true friends afford, and no mounts endure

7. And of a prior promise binding you
One sponsor allowed and one sponsor refused

8. You cannot thrive if you intend to follow
The behavior of the crawling asp or adder