1. This is her house, and that is where she grew up
Its fragrance and youth have blossomed from it

2. This is her house that calls out to a stranger
Unaware of its protector or what it saw of him

3. This is her house, and the night has commanded
The devil to watch over it for his brother

4. So he came without my eyes seeing him
And arrived without her shadow covering him

5. This is her house, and my promise was
To double my efforts to deserve it

6. Why do my feet wander astray from the path
As if I were a beggar?

7. Why have my palms fallen? Woe to my seriousness!
Which house do I blame today in my solitude?

8. The devil's face smiles at me, why do I see him
Anticipating my resolve with defiance?

9. Strange - this is an abyss that melts
In hands that welcome youth

10. Whenever its foot taps the soft earth dances
And scent rises from its sides

11. And when sleep bothers her, an angry voice
Calls to her from behind the veil:

12. "Remember nights of hunger and wakefulness
And forget that food is a sin"

13. She distracted me with her spirit of defeat
From the fire blazing in my loins

14. And gazed at me, then said:
We have seen no-one shy but you

15. This house was not prepared for anyone but me
Of the victims of regret and loved ones

16. Do not disappoint the hope of a lamb hunted
By the storm in the sea of wolves

17. And suddenly I reply hand to hand
And meet its grasp with the voice of my death

18. I reckoned the house transforms into a wasteland
With waves raging in darkness and fear

19. Or a desert where jinn dance in it
And the eye sees the writhing of the possessed

20. And I see the wall hidden in the gloom
A shore that reveals and hides the darkness

21. I said: O you, light my way
My throat is dry, no saliva wets it

22. And suddenly a torn whisper
Its echo like the gurgling of the drowning:

23. "O stranger visitor, wait,
The days have no lasting pacts"

24. On the theater of love and wine
Do you not see that veiled specter

25. Lost in the mind of darkness in concealment?
That is my mother - but I know no mother

26. Who bore me - time knows the secret
I stumbled like my stumbling over rocks

27. Above which the boat of life shattered
Then memories of youth and beauty remained

28. Inspiring tears to flow in lament
I live estranged in her house

29. And she sees me in it as if I'm a relative
Bad fortune has bound me to it

30. Each of us is loved by her sister
Except I provide for her and hope

31. My youth will have a share of life
Before youth departs and I remain

32. Robbed of the magic of youth
Greetings, greetings I said, peace

33. O daughter of the night, regrets and sleeplessness
She smiled, bowing her head, thinking

34. Of the beauty of life avoiding sleep
O daughter of the night, speak, do not hesitate

35. Perhaps the dream interprets the dream
We are riddles of a sorcerer genius

36. Who made death indispensable to life
A rebellion flames in my wings, unyielding

37. And a dream that destroys disasters, counting them
What unknown has that raving contained

38. And which of the two days is sweeter and more gentle?
Is it the day of birth, perfumed with glad tidings

39. Or is it the day that feeds the earth a child?
That is a secret I learned when she went

40. To console herself, and I challenged her loneliness
Her silence told me, and I said to my silence

41. How have the nights leaned toward you and tired you?
What have you gained from your nights

42. Except laying down and a dream that departed?
Where has your youth departed and it was a market

43. For the vain, earning it and you lost?
And old age came to you wretched

44. Blowing its spirit into you so you withered
And I imagined her face a shrine

45. For eyes that perceive annihilation as a drink
Of the remnants of two ears it filled with deception

46. And remnants of cheeks old age's dye avoided
And here is the temple of lips which

47. The poisons of smoke have turned into a desolate desert
And decay spreading the wings of a raven

48. People thought was her cascading hair
What universe veiled in secrets

49. Is behind your eyes, O daughter of fates?
How many ghostly forms of jinn have you shepherded

50. Concealing them from the preaching of insights
The grave of sorcery is in the eyelids and the

51. Seductive glances for the entertained have died
The grave of sorcery is in the eyelids and slept

52. Upon them are the eyelashes like cactus
The spouse of Iblis, who like the soul is a servant

53. And a god to souls that cannot be counted
Tell me about him, for my mind

54. Would choose him when asceticism deserted me
Your bodies represent him in beauty

55. So he pervades you, unrestrained and unlimited
Whenever he hungers, the kisses of passion feed him

56. And narrate to him honey
What spirit has cast its guidance upon me

57. When I left her, she will gape open her mouth?
I said: this is her talk, she will tell it

58. And how much of her youth it has told
When her words were supple

59. With a softness no wine's fragrance reached
And certainty storms over doubt

60. So her hands swoon over my hand
The light throbbed with the trepidation of fear

61. And I recognized farewell before farewell
My hand filled and her head drooping

62. And distress upon me at this drooping
Oh Lord, I did not disobey you in ignorance

63. But as a child in my wickedness and impulsiveness
Remove the darkness so I can see death

64. As salvation from the grip of greed
And she leaned toward my hearing with bones

65. Assembled between her chest and neck
And whispered to me that the truth has been sifted

66. And the gloating of the blameworthy failed
No halal or haram, but

67. Relief from the troubles of days
For the body travels the road of decay

68. And the soul travels the road of sublimity
The daughter of her house pitied my shock

69. And saw me like her unlucky fortune
So she shook her clothes and strangely said:

70. The matter of this afflicted stranger is wondrous
Why do my hands not feel my hands

71. When they are some of my wasted beauty?
Woe to her, she does not know anguish

72. Except the day she loses the rustling of skirts
I said: O you who fell in status among people

73. Death ridiculed your intentions completely
This is your beloved mother who

74. Died - so split your chest with a grave for her
So she awoke from the swoon of sin, moaning

75. A scream that pours out embers
And I accompanied the darkness, circling the night

76. Her eyes had never witnessed a dawn before
And I stepped over the field of bodies

77. With eyes diminished and heart downcast
What sin did I commit, what sin

78. When I left her without happiness?
Do you see her say, when she lost me,

79. Cheeks of worry whose roses are from kohl?
To her the distributor of fortunes, and to me

80. After a time, the regret of ascetics
And the tranquility of the dead reminded me

81. And the tears of sorrow inherited me
And I heard the devil cast into my hearing

82. Some of his eternal verses:
"Do not blame those who live under the banner

83. Of virtue - for the struggle of life has subjugated them
Perhaps a dignified man courts the soul of a prostitute

84. And the modesty of a maiden is on her face"