1. The separation has ferocity and assault
That brings agony and depression

2. And disturbing thoughts and worries
And a sigh that burns the throat

3. And tears pouring down during songs
And painful, long-lasting passion

4. My friend, I have distress
That filled the heart with sigh and gloom

5. It reminded me of desolate dwellings
Around the old ruins, long ago

6. Do not blame an enamored blameworthy one
For the nature of love is to be crazy

7. Do not think the lover’s heart awakes
From the pain of deep love if he is forbearing

8. Whenever he is forbearing in youth he sheds
From the protected tears, a pouring tear

9. If the agony of love afflicts you
You will not blame the wronged, oppressed one

10. The critic blames me unjustly though natural
To obey a critic in love

11. Does the longing one get blamed if he cries
Over dwellings and traces long gone?

12. Nothing is left of them but ostriches
And deer asleep and gazelles roaming

13. The hand of time changed them so they
Resemble fossils, O you fated one

14. And the winds of epochs played with it
The south, north and disasters took turns

15. So its features faded except
The lobed berries and the bruised spadix palms

16. And ashes like the kohl of averted eyes
And nests around terrains withering

17. I used to flirt in it long ago
With half-asleep eyelids, slowly roaming

18. With perfect stature, rounded buttocks
However much exhaustion tried to stand

19. It yelled at me the call of the deer, my stick
Silencing the writs of my peers

20. My glances smelled it, my hand’s perfume
Was like wrapped musk over rugged, plump skin

21. Its forehead was moon-like, my nights
My jewelry glittered, extremely beautiful

22. With fair, rosy cheeks, soft body
Tempting biters

23. Dwellings of others have saddened me
Where I lingered crazily for Suleima

24. Those were houses we enjoyed life in
And gathered bliss undying

25. We knew Suleima was pampered there
Between gentle, shapely maidens

26. It reminded us when she appeared suddenly
At night, dawn shone and thick darkness

27. The scent of meadows, musk, amber
Honey, radish and trellised vineyards

28. And chamomile, mallows, willow
And bowflower, mint and wormwood

29. It brought out the most beautiful traits
And showed me repulsion and frowning

30. It left me between the houses, though before that
The villain in houses was ignoring me

31. So he went with the daughters seeking provision
When he became deprived amongst his people

32. He went living as a neighbor of people who
Taste the remnant food

33. If people served his feet, then the
Meagre crumbs do not deserve serving

34. They served him but demotion delayed him
So he became deprecated and condemned

35. Every group becomes tired of an immoral one
They disliked him and suspected evil from him

36. Then he takes refuge with those who abandoned him before
So they feel boredom renewed

37. Thus God rewards every good believer
Who wards off oppressive, treacherous evil

38. I do not see from people a believer
Welcoming a thief, beggar or gluttonous sleeper

39. One who beats, insults his father especially
Or disparages his uncle and people in general

40. Combining arrogance, intrusion and cowardice
Hastily, and gossip and talebearing

41. And built a structure for misguidance and his
House among his neighbors became ruined

42. Breaks a covenant, does not keep a promise, spreads
Ubiquitous indecency among all females

43. He does not know God made forbidden
In all foreign women promiscuity

44. If you want the disciple to understand, curse him
May he not rise until Judgment Day

45. And follows in corruption the footsteps
He has never strayed from its path, wronged

46. He persisted following immorality, driven
Toward it compelled and subjugated

47. Fallen dignity, if he wants silence
Deficient words, if he wants opponents

48. Misguided, ignorant, taking from the non-Arabs
Its belly and gluttony and obtuseness

49. Human: Here is the English translation of the Arabic poem:
The separation has ferocity and assault

50. That brings agony and depression
And disturbing thoughts and worries