1. He called from the black valleys of Jima
A love-sick man, I hastened when he called me

2. My friends were astonished at my weeping and denied
My response when the two ears did not hear

3. So I said: Yes, the ear did not hear a call
Rather my heart is hearing and my soul

4. And O Yemeni caravan, inform
My dear one in the high plain that I am suffering

5. Make his meeting with me difficult or make my meeting with him difficult
Perhaps I met without being blamed

6. Thirsty she-camels do not meet at the soft sand
Heading to the water, marked with anklets

7. In his ribs it increases for them with misfortune
Sniffing the air of mischief and separation

8. When it is said this water did not possess for them
A confluence of peers or equals

9. More intensely to the loved ones from me and among them
A creditor when I solicited debts from me

10. So my friend, unload my luggage for I
Saw Layla in other than what you two see

11. And O you who mixed fresh butter oil in the evening
I see you in the belly of two wine-skins

12. Shall I, forgetting, recite the arrow with which
That gazelle attacked and hit me

13. There remained of the days of gathering to Mina
To the ritual stoning ground none but wishes

14. My sickness is blamed on Iraq greedily
But how can I be cured when the healer is Yemeni?