1. O my heart, Jeddah, how persistent is your persistence
And how your complaints and sorrows have not avoided me

2. Your branches are swept by a torrential flood, and I
Am a torrent of distress and pain that swept me away

3. When I saw faces that I used to know
Radiant with contentment, now misery meets me

4. I felt that the wounds of the heart are bleeding
And a voice from tragedy called out to me

5. O Jeddah's heart, o a pulse that makes me alternate
Between passion and deprivation, deprivation and passion

6. My poetry still sheds the tears of its letters
And my tears kept flowing in rhythmic measures

7. When I heard a young man recount his tale
A story that distressed my eyes with tears

8. The young man was at the door of the house, scorched
By distress and pains, fires

9. The grieving one called out to every corner
In the house, sending in it a forlorn specter

10. O house, o grave of my dreams that drowned
In Jeddah's flood, o my waves and deluge

11. And o the flame of sorrow in the heart of its resident
I see you burning my papers and branches

12. This is the "room" of my heart that came to deny me
And it expressed its rejection and denial of me

13. I lost in it my addresses, no wonder
It lost after the flood my address

14. Yesterday, my house was filled with the companionship of its resident
My father, mother, sisters and brothers

15. And today, alone, yes alone, the phantoms of my worries pursue me
And sorrow burns my passion

16. Yesterday, the family was together in the embraced home
Serenity of mind and good tidings were two friends

17. Together we followed the news of the pilgrims, and in
Our hopes was an image from our next day

18. Together we shaped for the day of Eid its joy
Among family, loved ones and neighbors

19. Tomorrow we will slaughter a sacrifice in the afternoon
Tomorrow I will meet my peers in high spirit

20. Tomorrow, tomorrow, this is how man unleashes it
In the voice of his dreams in every field

21. And no tomorrow came to me but with calamity
If not for my faith, it would have shaken all my pillars

22. The young man was drowning in the misery of his condition
Like a bird whose two wings were broken

23. I consoled him, and my heart had the same affliction
And sorrow that if he knew would also console me

24. I said: be patient my brother and persevere, be a man
Who has from patience and faith two coats of mail

25. Be forbearing and raise your hand to the sky
For patience and comfort are two companions

26. If the one who destined demise willed it
Upon the heads of mountains with peaks

27. Or in fortresses and erected towers
Guarded with fences and walls

28. The decree of the Merciful would have reached him
Annihilating the poor and the mighty and the sultan

29. O you who stood by the mouths of valleys
That were blocked with rubble, stone and concrete

30. Do not despair, for we have in our Lord a substitute
If we show patience and submission

31. Our distress is sufficient blessing that we boast of
What God gives of pardon and forgiveness