1. A wound like no other wound,
And tears no clouds can match,

2. Eyelids shrouded in slumber,
Entrails aflame with ache,

3. Inconsolable for loved ones lost,
Ill and depressed is he.

4. No joy in music finds he,
Zainab’s lyre cannot tempt his melancholy.

5. Hafiz al-Din, beloved master,
Like a sword bereft of scabbard,

6. I’d thought life’s sea had calmed,
But hopes proved false, calculations crumbled.

7. My lions, absent from your den,
What courage left when lions leave?

8. My state without you strange indeed,
My patience without you a wondrous feat.