1. Alas! I wish my patience had not been revealed as they were revealed
Indeed, it would have been good help when they betrayed

2. But four things obeyed separation from me
A heart, sleep, patience, and night companionship

3. And sorrow clung to me when some of it
Visited the courtyard of a secret not shared with concealment

4. And tears, when I held them back, poured forth
And longing, when I hid it, was made public

5. And sickness, when I hid what was in me, affirmed
Proofs for the lovers and evidence

6. So how many nights my patience remained like its morn
Conversing with me through the night gently

7. A stranger, kept away from by a loved one and home
As my loved one and homelands have kept away from me

8. Solitude summoned us, it and I
To weep in the sands' courtyard, the branches bent

9. I wail while my tears flow freely
Yet no eyelids moisten for his eyes

10. When longing ebbs from me, my wings flutter
With lament like the bending branches of Tika

11. Had determination from his wing aided me
I would have visited my loved ones wherever they were

12. God guarded a comfortable, easy living
That our time with the Dhahiris allowed

13. It was as if a dream had bid farewell
While I was awake within it

14. So how many lovely evenings I had
Flirting with me there by the acacias, fawns

15. Boughs braided by the branches that sway them
Hills told of them from the sand dunes

16. Idols worshipped by hearts, maidens
As idols were worshipped in the times of ignorance