1. When Mufadah saw the peace of Arqi,
And worries started to wear me down,

2. The angels in the lower heavens robbed me,
And in the farther heavens till nothingness hemmed me in,

3. So ask them, you'll see I was not beautiful enough
To give myself to them, for now I'm shut off from them,

4. So I said, you've blamed me enough,
And Hatem didn't die jesting or decrepit.