1. Oh Allah, break open my liver, O my sorrow
And fill my heart with burning embers, O my anguish

2. Drench my body with grief, O my malady
For after losing my soul, I have no use for my body

3. And after losing my loved ones, all I want is to be named among the dead
When my tribulation culminated, it mocked the silent mountains

4. It grew so wide even my restraint could not contain it
I buried all my family against my will

5. My brother, my sister, my father and my mother
And how many unnamed others I interred

6. Friends like the Pleiades and bare bones I smelled
I buried each, though I did not want to, in a desolate, gloomy wasteland

7. At the bottom of a grave, under thousands of shovels of dirt
These were graves I built, though they destroyed me

8. Constructed with my blood and flesh
Scenes that blinded me, as you saw

9. And stabbed my heart with every care
This grave for my intimacy, that for my kiss

10. And I lived on without them, though against my will
Due to my ill-fated destiny and unfair lot

11. Like a sword in solitude, not an arrow in a quiver
In Sufi-like poverty and destitution

12. My reason and patience were lost after them
When I had been in prosperity and plenty

13. In bounty and abundant luxury
When I did not cast them aside, or myself

14. When I did not ignore them, or myself
They saw my love as inescapable destiny

15. And their fate was to end up as my fate
To seek refuge in my name in times of woe

16. Never did I imagine they would all die
After them, my life lost all taste

17. Oh my deprivation after them, and my nothingness
Oh my loss of direction after the loss of my guiding stars

18. Oh sorrows that never cease growing
Oh tears that never cease flowing

19. Pouring more than I can hide beneath my shirt
Oh unjust times in judgment

20. No wonder you are my ruler and my opponent
With what crime, what sin

21. Have you wronged me, and how can I be blamed?
My praise is to Allah, and to my time my blame