1. I confide to you my hidden state
And of matters that have consumed my mind

2. Time has choked me with disintegration
I have become, and complain is to the Almighty

3. Then to steadfastness and determination
My father Ali, dispeller of terrors

4. A father of daughters and little money
I do not sleep at night from coughing

5. Thinking of many dependents
And the days' neglect of my like