1. لكُم خيالٌ فى الجفون مُمَثَّلُ

    أبداً وذكرٌ بالفؤاد مُوَكَّلُ

    Your image is pictured within the eyelids,

    forever, and your memory is entrusted to the heart.

  2. وإلى دياركُم نَحِنُّ صَبابةً

    وَنَفُضُّ أوعيَةَ الدموعِ ونُرسِلُ

    And for your dwellings we yearn with ardent longing,

    and we unseal the vessels of tears and let them flow.

  3. تلك المنازلُ ما تمرُّ سحابةٌ

    تهمى بها إِلا وعينٌ تَهمُلُ

    Those dwellings—no cloud passes

    pouring rain upon them without an eye shedding tears.

  4. ما ضَرَّها إذ ينزلون رُبُوعَها

    ألاّ يُرى فيها لعلوةَ مَنزِلُ

    What harm did it do them, when people inhabited their grounds,

    that no dwelling for ʿAlwah was seen there?