1. What does the ailing one whose lips are cracked say
With his heart throbbing with intense longing?

2. The night took him on a journey, so he is like a bird
Returning to the dwellings of the living.

3. He weeps and laments from a passion that has seized him,
The torrents and flames both opposing him.

4. O you who see those madly in love as strange,
Look, here is a lover who is all wonders.

5. O people of the neighborhood, be gentle with one whose
Fires have flared up and whose flowing tears pour forth.

6. If the land did not flourish with your deeds,
Then the grass on its edges would not be lush.

7. Nor would the heavens gleam with your star,
No pole star would one day shine among its mansions.

8. Nor would the waters in the lowlands of the land spring forth,
Nor would meteors blaze in the lofty atmosphere.

9. I loved you, so my brothers' jealousy multiplied
And they cast lies onto my garment like blood.

10. I was absent in the depths of my sorrows, and I hoped
For one single helper by whom troubles could be erased.

11. It was as if Jacob, my father, had no son,
And none but they were his progeny in the world.

12. God honored me until I became their master,
Just as hearts turn around from day to day.

13. When their Jesus approached me aggressively
And rose up in my yard to fight me,

14. I told them of the unseen world's affairs, so they were dumbfounded
And shaken by the sublimity of my holy presence.

15. Take my shirt and rub my father's face with it
And he will soon regain his sight, excellent is such a father!

16. They had overcome me and taken it after lying,
And I had become a prince among them just as they had overcome me.

17. Praise God who took us from Bedouin life to civilization;
We came and accomplished for us the goal and profit.

18. The Throne on high and the angels below know us,
As do the House, the eloquent preachers, and the sermons.

19. If the enemies denied us, they are failures,
And despite them the non-Arabs and Arabs know us.

20. Through the House of the Messenger of God we have a
Noble lineage, with an excellent origin and ancestry.

21. We are a people whose ascent is to the Highest,
With no cause but the choice of the Chosen One.

22. The envious attacked us with evil, happily
Enjoying the rubbing of a mangy camel's skin.

23. Oh, how miserable is the path they have taken
And their goal in religion is defect.

24. The snake of their inner thoughts has become smooth to the touch,
But it turns on them with lethal poison.

25. We took successive steps,
Following the Prophet to whom reverence is shown.