1. Time has played havoc with my resolve
And I have tasted bitter after sweet

2. If you are at war with them, watch
My situation with impartial eyes

3. Oh her beauty when she appeared to us
With languid eyes and drowsiness

4. As if you had clothed her in a garden
Between yellow and green

5. Amr blames me for a finger
On which the secrets grew silent

6. People have needs and I have passion
Kindled by things after other things

7. But oh you who are spurned by his opinion
Reproach a brother and step away from harm

8. He who takes fire in his palms
Will have the fire splash back from my verses

9. You are a man set against our wrath
And fleeing from our disgrace

10. As if you swore not to seek
My innocence or heed my verses

11. And if I slip into a sin
I have eaten forbidden meat

12. You envied me when I attained wealth
You were nothing but a son of Eve

13. He met his brother, a pilgrim,
And stabbed him at dawn in treachery

14. While you accuse me though I am innocent
I appear to you bearing burdens

15. As if you have suffered harm from me
More blue than the people of Haroura

16. So depart, blameworthy, or stay, finding refuge,
You are fed up with malice and harm

17. No eye of a gloating enemy shall shed a tear
Crying for a brother who is no crier

18. If you were a sword I had to face
I would have healed myself of my enemies

19. Or if you were my soul in my hands
I would have found myself forgiving