1. The dwellings are left in ruins
Between Jurayr and the corner of Kusab

2. The path there is changed by the bend
Of passing clouds followed by clouds

3. And the tails of the raging winds shape it
Into a creation that eyes resemble writing

4. The winds wore away its newness from its soil
Into fine particles, so it became dispersing debris

5. And I saw it once inhabited
With beautiful vegetation in its place

6. The house that one morning when I met
At the embers, I did not tire of answering

7. This one who sold his friend for another
And wants me to be pleased with that reward

8. I said, listen to me, who would obey
His flattering and lying friend

9. And have his ropes knotted for him
Without cutting off the causes

10. When you tried blaming to know
What we have, you prolonged the blame

11. Or was that because of the distance, then
It suffices you, the cloak covers us both

12. And I see in your face an evident radiance
And in another's face, stain and fog