1. يا غائباً خَطَرَاتُ القَلْبِ مَحْضَرُهُ

    الصَّبْرُ بَعْدَكَ شيءٌ لَسْتُ أَقْدِرُهُ

    O absent one, whose presence is in the heart's passing thoughts,

    Patience after you is something I cannot manage.

  2. تَرَكْتَ قلبِي وأشواقِي تُفَطِّرُهُ

    ودَمْعَ عَيْنِي وأحداقي تُحَدِّرُهُ

    You left my heart, with my longings tearing it apart,

    And my eye's tears, with my pupils sending them streaming down.

  3. لو كُنْتَ تُبْصِرُ في تُدْمِيْرَ حالَتَنَا

    إذنْ لأَشْفَقْتَ ممّا كُنْتَ تُبْصِرُهُ

    If you had seen our state in Tudmir,

    Then you would surely have been alarmed by what you saw.

  4. فالعَيْنُ دُوْنَكَ لا تَحْلَى بِلَذَّتها

    والدَّهْرُ بَعْدَكَ لا يَصْفُو تَكَدُّرُهُ

    For without you, the eye finds no sweetness in its delight,

    And after you, time's murkiness does not clear.

  5. أُخْفِي اشتياقي وما أَطْوِيهِ مِنْ أسفٍ

    على المريَّةِ والأنفاسُ تُظْهِرُهُ

    I hide my longing and the sorrow I fold away

    For Almería, yet my breaths reveal it.