إِذا أَدَّيتِني وَحَمَلتِ رَحلي

مَسيرَةَ أَربَعٍ بَعدَ الحِساءِ

When you lead me and carry my belongings

On a journey of four miles after supper

فَشَأنُكِ أَنعُمٌ وَخَلاكِ ذَمٌّ

وَلا أَرجِع إِلى أَهلي وَرائي

Your treatment of me is most kind, while to abandon me would be blameworthy,

And I shall not return to my family behind me.

وَجاءَ المُسلِمونَ وَغادَروني

بِأَرضِ الشامِ مُشتَهِيَ الثَواءِ

The Muslims came and left me

In the land of Syria, longing for rest,

وَرَدَّكِ كُلُّ ذي نَسَبٍ قَريبٍ

إِلى الرَحمَنِ مُنقَطِعَ الإِخاءِ

While every close relative has denied me

Before the Merciful, severing all brotherhood.

هُنالِكَ لا أُبالي طَلعَ بَعلٍ

وَلا نَخلٍ أَسافِلُها رِواءِ

There I shall not care if Sirius appears,

Nor for palms whose bases are irrigated.