1. بَني جَهوَرٍ أَحرَقتُمُ بِجَفائِكُم

    جَناني وَلَكِنَّ المَدائِحَ تَعبَقُ

    Sons of Jahwar, with your coldness you have burned

    my heart, yet the praise-poems waft fragrance.

  2. تَعُدّونَني كَالعَنبَرِ الوَردِ إِنَّما

    تَطيبُ لَكُم أَنفاسُهُ حينَ يُحرَقُ

    You regard me as rose-red ambergris: only

    when it is burned do its breaths smell sweet to you.