1. Asking the places of rest about our loved ones at daybreak,
You awoke longing for us this morning.
١. سائِلا الرَبعَ بِالبُلَيِّ وَقولا
هِجتَ شَوقاً لَنا الغَداةَ طَويلا
2. Where are those sweet people who adorned you when with them,
I saw you beautiful, populated.
٢. أَينَ حَيٌّ حَلّوكَ إِذ أَنتَ مَحفو
فٌ بِهِم آهِلاً أَراكَ جَميلا
3. "They left all together and went their ways,
And without me, if only I could a path take."
٣. قالَ ساروا بِأَجمَعٍ فَاِستَقَلّوا
وَبِرُغمي لَوِ اِستَطَعتَ سَبيلا
4. "We grew tired, though not of separation,
And they wanted change and new plains."
٤. سَإِمونا وَما سَإِمنا بِبَينٍ
وَأَرادوا دِماثَةً وَسُهولا
5. That, a singer of Indian descent, and India
Has moonlike beauty that ravishes his heart.
٥. ذاكَ مَغنىً مِن آلِ هِندٍ وَهِندٌ
قَمَرَتهُ فُؤادَهُ المَتبولا
6. When she appeared to us, revealing household goods,
Smooth of skin and slender of arm.
٦. إِذ تَبَدَّت لَنا فَأَبدَت أَثيثاً
حَلِكاً لَونُهُ وَجيداً أَسيلا
7. And dispersed like ostriches in distress
Whose remnants time does not relinquish.
٧. وَشَتيتاً كَالأُقحُوانِ عِذاباً
لَم يُغادِر بِهِ الزَمانُ فُلولا