1. Oh the sorrow of the heart after today, no longer caring
For the memory of a loved one in some corner of the earth distanced

2. Sulayma said, today I see you melancholic
And after me, I see the gray hair has marked you

3. And after the blackness of your hair confounded its neatness
As with its mane scattered, when you let down its braids

4. And a watchtower where ravens rest its fewness
I looked upon it bare while my soul recoiled

5. Intent to watch what the weather grants of blessings
So a viewer going to it while its inhabitants left

6. And I descended to a caravan ragged
With disheveled hair as if above them a cloud

7. When we rode, we raised them with a whimper
Until we encompassed beasts, then their owners