1. She went away between the sand dunes
And broke my expectations and my promises

2. I spend the night longing for her face
Bearing the cover of loss upon me

3. So I said to myself, stop, she is
Of the nature of the untrue promise

4. Not every lightning flash has pouring rain
Nor every friend is trustworthy

5. How many watering places below her are fertile
And lofty sand dunes and twining vines

6. And generous palms rising above
For the eye, paired and single

7. So cheer up a soul whose heart longs
For one not lost and missed

8. And a companion who gives and shows nobility
Enduring fears and returning

9. I accompanied him in power or its loss
And increased the number of my enviers

10. O you who seek needs, do not disobey me
And listen, I am an advising guide

11. Leave Hammad and his character
No good is in the character of Hammad

12. One who prefers the head to his Lord
And puts the pig among provisions

13. Chasing boys whenever he goes out
Not every sodomite is a chaser

14. I am quit of him and his religion
He lays up at daybreak to ambush

15. Miserable is the officer, he has a position
Among the family of Nuhayy, not often visited

16. He does not drink wine, but
He eats it, eating like Imr'e Al-Qais

17. You were named slave of the head for its love
The present and the far know

18. A lying father named you Hammad
You are not Hammad for God

19. After fifty which you completed
You cry over the peg of Is, the usual

20. You have turned away from the shame of the Hashimites
And death urges you on towards it

21. Were it not for your turning aside and fulfilling
His vow in you, you would be among provisions

22. You are not an adulterer, but
You have inherited from a wandering seducer

23. If you were of those who fear dishonor
You would refrain from my anger and rejection

24. You serve a people and left me
When you see me as the snake of the valley