1. O dweller of the abode where loved ones lived
Once a friend, though now left desolate

2. If they have left and made you lonesome
In my heart they've found a familiar place to dwell

3. A drink for a singing girl has made me drunk with her love
In your ruins, from passion I’m tipsily singing

4. The bracelets' tinkling bells, which rang out for me
When we parted, left me restless and sleepless

5. Radiantly fair were they, when adorned and ready
When traveling their veils made them shy and modest

6. They captivated us when their beauty appeared
Turning from us, they stole away our souls

7. And on the day of parting, with a glance they shot me
Subduing all my passion and leaving me imprisoned

8. Wounding my heart with separation and intention
A wound only cured by reunion's medicine

9. Of all the gentle beauties they made
The sweetness of life into hardship and sorrow

10. Were it not for the son of Saleh, for whom
I had, though before inauspicious, great joy

11. He gave generously and added to me from his bounty
Honor, making me in his eyes an intimate friend

12. O King who built the lofty pillars
And gathered the ancient and precious pottery

13. You were blessed on the day exalted
When the Nobilities were wedded as your bride

14. She's like Solomon's Queen, for she
Resembled, in her arrival, the Queen of Sheba

15. A precious King, and she a precious Queen
So the precious has ruled over the precious

16. Blessed in all you possess, may you ever
Throughout life, remain supported and protected

17.
And when you don the times, remain immortal