1. For whom are the ruins in the valley of sand, worn away?
Its traces erased by the north wind.

2. I stood there, with tears flowing from my eyelids
Streaming down onto its love songs.

3. I asked about the maiden of the Banu Qurad
And her beautiful companions.

4. How can a barren vestige respond to me,
Far, unable to answer my question?

5. When the raven lamented there woefully
And my tears flowed copiously like the droplets of night,

6. And told me of all the kinds of misery,
And separation after union.

7. O raven of estrangement, why do you cross me each day?
You’ve distracted me and occupied my thoughts.

8. As if I slaughtered your chicks with the edge of my sword,
Or hunted you down with ropes.

9. For the sake of your father Daw’, heal the wound of my heart.
And relieve the heat of my secret with speech.

10. And tell me where did Ubayla settle?
And what did the hands of nights do to her?

11. For my heart roams in every land,
Kissing the trace of delicate steps.

12. And my body lies discarded in the sand dunes,
A specter hoping for the apparition of a specter.

13. And in the valley on the branches is a bird,
Crying woefully, its lament carried high.

14. So I said to it when it expressed its wailing:
“Stop your complaining, for your state is not my state.

15. I am shedding tears while you are crying
Without tears – that is easy weeping”.

16. God has dissolved the separation and had no mercy on it,
How my heart has been split open by the arrows!

17. I fight every stubborn tyrant
And separation kills me without a fight.