1. I went to complain of passion to the sand dunes,
How strange to complain of passion to inanimate things!

2. He whose life is spent in grief and contention,
His days pass between humiliation and obstinacy.

3. O fate, you have wronged me and wronged me greatly!
So pour for the sons of adultery the cups of death!

4. If we controlled what we desire,
The path of right guidance would become clear.

5. Alas, would that I were travelling
To scatter the saddle-bags and the luggage!

6. To pitch my tent as a guest ,
At the protected borderland fortress,

7. A guest of the Eager One (God) whose praise is glorious,
Muhammad the Praised One, the Lord of open hands.

8. The utmost of my hopes, with Yazid's wealth,
Was but to attain the goal of my desire in seeing him.

9. He is the protector of beneficence, nay but a breath of the Merciful's own,
Nay, but a torrent of the years of grim misfortune.