1. Is there anyone with knowledge, who knows my illness and sorrows,
Knows that their animosity is the origin of my pain,

2. And that after they left, my heart and eyelids
Remain ever sad for them, ever tearful.

3. When they left, my sleeplessness on the night they departed was evident,
So I have no hope anymore for even an apparition in dreams.

4. I concealed the matter of love the day I intended it, so it slept
With its secret in my eyelids – what slumber!

5. Nights used to be white in their company,
So do not ask, after them, about the state of my days.

6. I feigned passion for them while people thought
Illness had made me lean and reproached me.

7. But the real cause of my emaciated body
Is nothing but my intense yearning to meet Ibn Tammaam.

8. O my master, whenever I am deprived of seeing him,
I become distraught and sick without him.

9. Being deprived of seeing him is more painful to my heart
Than water to the thirsty lost in the dark.

10. He avoided me and did not bother to ask, in his aloofness,
About this yearning soul weeping for him since he left.

11. I wish he knew that he has a brother in Egypt,
Weak in body since last year.

12. I did not expect this from his affection,
Nor are accounts from Syria thus.

13. O you who are absent yet reside in my heart, even if
My eyes fall asleep, dreams would bring you close to me.

14.
Having lost control in passion for meeting you,

15. I now deceive my hopes with wishful thinking.
I have no joy left except in gathering with friends

16. And amusing myself with them.
If they have left me alone and avoided me,

17. I stay up late while my eyelids crave sleep.
But how can I attain my hopes of meeting them

18. When time is straitened and its arrow kept from striking.
The cheer of my days has withered, so if days

19. Were to be offered to me, I would spurn them in disinterest.
After seventy years, what is left for me

20. Except preparing to depart with supplies and resolve?
People hope for what they sent ahead tomorrow,

21. While I fear the evil I have committed before me.
I hope for nothing but God's pardon and to find

22. Salvation in the hereafter through my Islam.
Yes, and the love I hope for will intercede for me

23. Tomorrow when I come to Him with my sins.
So remember your brother in absentia and pray for him

24. For you are, among all people, the best of kin to him.
Perhaps His mercy will gather us in the Abode

25. Of forgiveness, despite my sins and crimes.
My greetings of God's peace to you, for as long