1. غمط الزوج حق زوجته إذْ

    طلب الغزو فوق غير فراشهْ

    The husband denied his wife her due when

    he sought conquest on a bed other than his own.

  2. ليت شعري الحلال فيه عفاف

    واضح نحن في غنى عن نقاشهْ

    I wonder—there is chastity in what is lawful,

    plain to see; we have no need to debate it.

  3. ***

    إن الأحبة يوم ساروا كان لي

    ***

    Indeed, the day the loved ones departed, I had

  4. نحو التأوه و السهاد مسارُ

    عهدي بما حولي تغيَّر حاله

    a path toward sighing and sleeplessness.

    What I once knew around me has changed;

  5. لا الأهل أهلٌ قد بقوا لا الدارُ

    ***

    neither have kin remained kin, nor home remained home.

    ***

  6. كم و كم مما نابنا قد أسِفْنا

    فسرَرْنا بذلك الشامتينا

    How often, how often, we have grieved over what befell us,

    thereby delighting those who gloated at our misfortune,

  7. و إلى أن صار التأسف منا

    آسِفا ضمن جوقةِ الآسفينا

    until our grieving itself became

    a griever within the chorus of grievers.