1. أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّني أَفنَيتُ عُمري

    بِمَطلَبِها وَمَطلَبُها عَسيرُ

    Have you not seen that I have spent my life

    In pursuit of her, though the quest for her is hard?

  2. فَلَمّا لَم أَجِد سَبَباً إِلَيها

    يُقَرِّبُني وَأَعيَتني الأُمورُ

    So when I found no way to her

    That would draw me near, and circumstances had thwarted me,

  3. حَجَجتُ وَقُلتُ قَد حَجَّت ظَلومٌ

    فَيَجمَعُني وَإِيّاها المَسيرُ

    I went on pilgrimage and said, “Ẓalūm has indeed gone on pilgrimage;

    So the journey will bring her and me together.”