1. Honor with it a poet in Damascus who has appeared
Who shows subtle meanings that captivate poetry

2. What a good trade when I gifted him a seashell
After he composed for me from his poems pearls

3. Reward the breeze in the valley of an-Naqa with magic
And ask about friends, did it find any news of them

4. And inform them about a lover who still
Keeps to the promise of affection, was the separation long or short

5. And explain to them my bad state after their separation
Perhaps they may show kindness or turn their gaze

6. We were, and they were, and intimacy gathered us
So time made that gathering scattered

7. Who can make me see them one day and my luck helps me
And my eye reaches solace in them

8. The time of purity that was so short has passed
And time compensated that purity with turbidity

9. O neighbor of the alive one, is there a twig we hope for
And O nights of bliss, will you return, I wonder

10. Our loved ones, how bitter life is after you
And can a heart that broke find comfort

11. So O He who granted us days that passed
With your company we did not know boredom

12. Time made that life turbid and gloomy
After it was blooming and verdant in you