1. This caravan's prayer that you immortalized
To the hearing of time

2. Has an echo in the heart and mind
Of the most delicious delights of heart and mind

3. But it is saddening in its repetition
Of what happened in that wasteland

4. When the desert rests languidly and nothing throbs
Except the ardour of the journey

5. And the night in its boundless aberration
Closes its eyelids over responsibility

6. And the terrified bird in its expanse
Warns of the tragedy in panic

7. It twitters like the arrows that were shot
Where they were shot with red flames

8. My tears flowed for the misfortunes of a slain woman
Murdered in the prime of her life

9. A deluded man attacked her thinking
He was avenging honour and purity

10. And a regret that gripped me gripped
The witnesses of that heinous murder

11. Do not souls have in their diffusion
Bonds beyond what we know?

12. Their essence is individual and their feelings
Are shared in harm and benefit

13. An incident occurred in the Egyptian countryside
And many like it happen in the countryside

14. Wonderful stories were told to us
In words purer than drops of rain

15. Told in a way that was more effective on the soul
Than wine

16. Oh Arabic tongue that revealed
Its secrets and preserved its mysteries

17. From which garden can the likes of what
It harvested from your fresh flowers be gathered

18. From which sea hunting for its pearls
Can what it hunted of pearls be hunted

19. From which ingots in the thick of jewelry
Can what it forged of ingots be forged?

20. Verses of Taha were revealed with guidance
Borrowing the sorcery of magic

21. The newest thing Turafa brought
A wonder in the literature of the age

22. It stirred the imagination of poetry in an image
That made prose jealous of poetry