1. Yearn for Zainab though parting's ordained
Few are the tents where farewell's not gained

2. The Iraqi knows not, when the dawn uplifts
Who circumambulates the Holy House or bows prostrate in prayer

3. I swear if she travels I'll never stay
As long as this love endures but her shooter lies dead

4. Bakr invited it by his own misfortune
Whether he came there lost or rightly-guided

5. He who's warned but disobeys, who envies me without cause
Neither slanderers nor envious ones have harmed me

6. This draws her close, her tears the day we parted
She heeded no limits and no restraints

7. She swore a solemn oath the night we crossed the bridge
And oaths are all that bind a man intent

8. By her soil and that of her neighbor
In him I found more than others have obtained

9. If all mankind were gathered and its elite
Were chosen, none would equal him

10. I warned my heart to stop desiring her
But it disobeyed me and did as it thought fit