1. News of Marwan came to me from afar that he
Has fettered my blood or cut out my tongue

2. So in Jesus there is salvation, and on earth there is refuge
When we lift up the skirts for them

3. And desire brought the two of us together until it provoked me
The confidant of love from my country

4. I say to the caller of love, and the wall between us
And Wadi Qura, I am at your service when you called me

5. And I returned from an old passion to my infatuation
And I revealed the ardor that was hidden

6. And they said he has a fatal love sickness
And my soul knew where my remedy was

7. She is angry at me that I visit her
And she takes my sin upon herself that she sees me

8. It is magic, except magic has an antidote
And I cannot find for it, time has a healer

9. I love the beautiful women, for Buthaina is a beauty
And I loved when you sang the melodies

10. I love from the names what suits her name
And resembles it or is derived from it

11. I wished for the love of life that it
Would be increased for it from my lifetime

12. And you told me Taima is a dwelling place
For Layla when summer casts down the tents

13. So these are the months of summer, from us they have passed
Why does the passion throw Layla with missiles?

14. You who, if you wish, make my life miserable
And if you wish, after God, make me comfortable

15. You, from whom neither a friend nor enemy
Sees the brightness you left except they eulogized me

16. And you did not cease with me, O Buthaina, until if
I cry from passion, the pigeons cry for me

17. If my foot goes numb and they say a cure for it
Is the prayer of a beloved, you were my prayer

18. When a snakebite is cured by an amulet
Then your amulet has become, O Buthaina, my cure

19. Neither did distance, the separator between us, cause
Hard-heartedness, nor did long companionship cause disdain

20. Nor did the slanderers increase me except in passion
Nor the multitude of critics except in persistence

21. Do you not know, O sweet of saliva, that I
Remain in gloom if I do not see your face as a confidant

22. Indeed, I feared that death would take me suddenly
While desires for you remain as they are

23. And meeting you makes me forget, whenever
I see you one day, to tell you what is in me