1. I refused the wishes of my soul that we will meet
And is it possible for a soul to meet whom it desires?

2. And if it meets or God unites us
Then in it is the cure of my soul and its ailment

3. I hope, O Commander of the Faithful, for a need
Through your hands, after God is hoped its fulfillment

4. And you are God's heaven in which for them
From the earth revives the dead of barrenness its water

5. Both your fathers unsheathed the swords of a group
Against young men, their wives meet their sons

6. So it was not sheathed until their hearts relented
And the Syrian was allowed the blow, their blood shed

7. For the goodness of the people's place of stay, they unpacked
To a dome above al-Walid is its sky

8. Abu al-'Asi and Marwan built it above him
And Yusuf touched the stars its building

9. So if al-Mahdi sends to me my she-camel which
For my companions stirs up yearning its weeping

10. And if they send it for success, then it has walked
To you over epithets and prolonged its pace

11. And that if from its burial place it saw
Shining hills that it hastens its escape