1. How can I seek a home that's near you
When you've abandoned your abode in that place?

2. They whispered that if your people had power over you
They would soothe chests full of rancor.

3. Through the pass of dahna and ma'qulah
At night owls led us,

4. Facing north-westerly winds that struck us
With pounding rain like scattered cotton.

5. Onto our turbans rain is cast, and our saddlebags -
We carry them on our packed camels.

6. If our camels take us far, you and I
Are like one whose campsite, after folding, is packed up.

7. With God's sword you were granted victory
Over the enemy, sustenance unforbidden.

8. You extended a pure, blessed, white hand
To people, with abundance from you, unlimited.

9. O best of those living when sandals have feet,
And dead after God's messengers are buried.

10. I swore - and didn't swear falsely - on the demise
Of a house of those who hasten that's inhabited

11. Circling the Kaaba, not donning shoes, abstaining
Like a pilgrim on hajj, patient.

12. By the Sender, the Inheritor of the dead, you guaranteed
Them the earth for eternity everlasting

13. When they surge in droves as if they are
Locusts scattered by the wind from the thickets.

14. If Jesus hadn't heralded it and clarified it,
You'd be the prophet calling unto light.