1. The iron closed around your two companions, so they closed their eyes,
While you remained seeking someone to lift you up in your pregnancy,

2. And it is as if, at every calamity, my heart
Is a bone whose break got repeated, so it crumbled.

3. I had a brother, I distracted him, so another brother reminded him,
So he left, and events remind you of what has passed,

4. So drink at the loss of loved ones, we
Are islands of death, obedient and submissive.

5. And I have roamed with the morning breeze at dawn,
Then I raced, but found no place for me to race.

6. And I knew what a man in his time knew,
So I obeyed my tormentors and gave consent.

7. And I woke from intoxication, and I was assigned
To shepherd the dove and the white crow.

8. Not every flash of lightning is generous with its water,
And perhaps spring was truthful, so it blossomed.

9. And I made desire for Munifah an honor,
Either reciprocating or lending.

10. Until when she drank the water of my affection,
And I drank the coldness of her rejection, frustrated,

11. She said to her keeper, "Go, and find out
Why did he neglect greeting and turned away?"

12. I have tasted his friendship and tasted his separation,
So I found it honey and burning embers.

13. Oh, I wish I knew why he shunned me,
Did I do wrong or did the clouds rumble and flash?

14. Woe to me because of him, and my woe is between us,
It was nothing but dye, so it faded.

15. Glory to Him who decreed adversity for the lovestruck one,
What had happened was destined, so it passed.