1. إِن لَم يَعِدني في قِلاكُم عائِدٌ

    مِنكُم فَإِنّي لا مَحالَةَ هالِكُ

    If, amid your aversion, no visitor comes to see me

    From among you, then I shall surely perish.

  2. وَإِذ اِرتَأَيتُ عَدلاً مَيلَكُم

    عَنّي وَغَيرُ سَبيلُكُم أَنا سالِكُ

    And since I deemed it just that you turn

    Away from me, while I tread a path other than yours,

  3. لِكِنَّني مَملوكُكُم وَعَلى عُقو

    قِ العَبدِ مِنّاً مِنهُ يَحنو المالِكُ

    Yet I am your slave, and despite the disobedience

    Of the slave, the master shows tenderness out of his own grace.