1. Shall I not send a messenger to Abu Qais
For I have not betrayed you, nor have you betrayed me

2. But I folded up the mantle when
I saw you had folded up the mantle from me

3. And whenever a friend wanted to stab me
I turned my back on him for his stabbing

4. Thus have I decided that for friends
I owe them and I owe from me

5. So I am never safe, O friend
In anything, if he does not trust me