1. O night, will you ever have a dawn
And will your captive star ever be set free?

2. O night, you lingered over me long enough
As if you were created without a dawn

3. Did Futooma spend the night in you, complaining
As I complain of my estrangement and displacement?

4. I utter the groan of distress as if I
Am a wounded man crying from pain

5. Sadness tosses me from side to side
As if I am above the tips of spears

6. Passion calls me to you or to Amro
So I flapped my wings in flight toward you

7. And if I could, from such passion and longing
I would ride the wings of the wind to reach you

8. Patience, friends, do not blame us
For passion has singed all the feathers

9. It is destined and fated for us
And who can escape destined fate?

10. A stranger lodged in your abode so it
Became dreary, desolate areas for him

11. Faces there scorned him
Though once cheerful and mirthful

12. Had you wished I would not have isolated myself
With my passions, making me shun company

13. And you claimed you share my love
Yet alas, disease never makes for health

14. I blame you because you were stingy
When you are able to be most generous