1. إِلَيكُم يَحِنُّ القَلبُ في كُلِّ ساعَةٍ

    وَنَحوَ مَغانيكُم تَلَفَّتَ ناظِري

    Toward you my heart yearns at every hour,

    and toward your dwellings my gaze has turned.

  2. وَما عَرَضَت لي خَطرَةٌ مُذ بَعُدتُم

    فَلَم يَكُ إِلّا نَحوَكُم عَفوَ خاطِري

    And no passing thought has come to me since you went far away

    without my mind turning unbidden toward you alone.

  3. وَإِنّي لَخَفّاقُ الفُؤادِ كَما بَدا

    نَسيمُكُمُ مِن نَحوِ سَلعٍ وَحاجِرِ

    And surely my heart flutters whenever there stirs

    your breeze from the direction of Salʿ and Hajir.

  4. وَلِلَّهِ ما يُبديهِ جِدُّ حَديثُكُم

    بِقَلبِيَ مِن سِرِّ الهَوى في مَحاجِري

    And how wondrous is what earnest talk of you reveals:

    the secret love within my heart, there in my eyes!

  5. أَلا يا سَقى اللَهُ الجَزيرَةَ إِنَّها

    لَأَهلٌ لِأَن تُسقى بِدَرِّ المَواطِرِ

    Ah, may God water al-Jazira, for it

    is surely worthy of being watered by the rain clouds' abundant flow.

  6. وَلِم لا وَقَد حازَت مِنَ الفَضلِ جُملَةً

    يُقَصِّرُ عَن أَوصافِها كُلُّ شاعِرِ

    And why not, when it has gathered such a wealth of excellence

    that every poet falls short of describing it?

  7. لَطائِفُ آدابٍ فُكاهَةُ مَجلِسٍ

    مَوائِدُ أَمثالٍ نَوادِرُ أَشعارِ

    Literary refinements, the wit of a gathering,

    banquets of proverbs, rarities of poetry,

  8. سَرائِرُ آياتٍ حَبيتُ بِفَضلِها

    تَبين لِما خَصَّت بِهِ قُدرَةَ الباري

    mysteries of wondrous signs, with whose grace I was favored,

    reveal the Creator's power through their special endowments.

  9. وَكَيفَ أَصبِرُ عَنكُم بَعدَ مَعرِفَتي

    أَن لَيسَ لي عِوَضٌ مِنكُم وَلا بَدَلُ

    And how can I endure being apart from you, now that I know

    that I have no replacement for you, nor any substitute?

  10. إِذا نَشَطتُ لِشَخصٍ في مُعاشَرَةٍ

    جَرَّبتُهُ فَثَنى عَن وُدِّهِ الكَسَلُ

    Whenever I feel drawn to someone's company,

    I try him, and listlessness turns me away from affection for him.