يا سعد بلغ إن وصلت إليهمو

منى التحية والسلام عليهمو

O Saad, if you reach them

Convey my greetings and peace to them

واخلع اذا قاربت وادى حيهم

نعليك واستوعب فؤادك فيهمو

And take off your shoes when you approach their valley

And let your heart be immersed in them

واخفض جناح الذل منك لعزهم

ان الذليل هو العزيز لديهمو

And lower the wing of humiliation from you for their dignity

For the humiliated is the honoured with them

واسحب ذيول الحزن واقرع وجنتى

خديك بالدمع الذى يرضيهمو

And drag the tails of sorrow and knock your cheeks

With the tears that please them

وخذ الامان الى من أهل الحمى

فأنا الذى أبعدت عنهم منهمو

And take safety to those of zeal

For I am the one who has been distanced from them

ان كان عظم الذنب عنهم مبعدى

يا سعد فالغفران منهم أعظم

If the sin against them that distances me is great

O Saad, then forgiveness from them is greater

انى وحقهم على العهد الذى

أرويه عن شوقى ويروى عنهمو

I, by their right upon the covenant

That I narrate from my passion, and it narrates from them

هم أهل ودى هم سويدا مهجتى

هم غايتى القصوى اليّ وهم همو

They are the people of my love, they are the delight of my soul

They are my ultimate goal to which I return

يا سعد لا أسطيع تفصيلا لما

كابدت من شوق اليهم يعظم

O Saad, I cannot detail what

I have endured from yearning for them, so great

فقصار مثلى علمه من أنهم

أهل الوفا فلعلهم وعسى همو

So my example knows that they

Are people of loyalty, so perhaps they will be

فعلىّ أن وفقت منهم للوفا

أوفى لهم وبفضلهم لى يرحموا

So it is upon me, if I attain loyalty from them

To be more loyal to them, and by their favour, may they have mercy

يا سعد كم من نعمة فى نعمة

تترى عليّ وكم أتتنى أنعم

O Saad, how many blessings upon blessings

Have descended upon me, and how many gifts have come to me

وأنا الذى أعشيت عن ذكر لهم

ولهوت عنهم بالذى يغضبهمو

While I am the one who has neglected to remember them

And was distracted from them by that which angers them

ورفلت فى حلل المآثم حقبة

فالويل لى غب المآثم ماثم

And I revelled in the garments of sin for a period

So woe to me, the garments of sin are shameful

أكرم بهم من جيرة كم قابلوا

أهل الاساءة بالتى هي أكرم

How honoured I have been by them, from a neighbour

Who met evil with the best

أسفى على زمنى الذى أنفقته

فى غير ربح والبطالة أشأم

I regret my time which I spent

In other than profit, and idleness is most ominous

فاليوم أحصد ما زرعت من الجفا

فى حقهم ندما ومثلى يندم

So today I reap what I have sown of estrangement

In their regard, in regret, and the likes of me regrets