1. O year, why do I not recognize you rejecting the tradition
After those who followed one another in succession?
١. ياعامِ لَم أَعرِفكَ تَنكِرُ سُنَّةً
بَعدَ الَّذينَ تَتابَعوا بِالمَرصَدِ
2. If our blind ones had seen you in endurance
In al-Hazuriyyah or in the plain of Dharghad,
٢. لَو عايَنَتكَ كُماتُنا بِطُوالَةٍ
بِالحَزوَرِيَّةِ أَو بِلابَةِ ضَرغَدِ
3. You would have lain bound there with chains
Among the people, or you would have lain with no pillow.
٣. لَثَوَيتَ في قِدٍّ هُنالِكَ موثَقاً
في القَومِ أَو لَثَوَيتَ غَيرَ مُوَسَّدِ