أَدارَ النَوى كَم دارَ فيك تَلَدُّدي

وَكَم عُقتِني عَن دارِ أهيَفَ أَغيدِ

How the planets have circled, how much they wavered in you,

And how much they prevented me from the abode of my loved ones.

حَلَفتُ بِهِ لَو قَد تَعَرَّضَ دونَهُ

كُماةُ الأَعادي في النَسيج المُسردِ

I swore by it, if the enemies had stood in its way

Like the lined up stars in the outspread sky.

لَجَرّدتُ لِلضَربِ المُهَنَّدَ فاِنقَضى

مُرادي وَعَز ما مِثلَ حَدّ المُهَنَّدِ

I would have bared myself for the slashing sword, until

My purpose was fulfilled, and rare is one like the slashing sword.

فَما حَلَّ خِلٌّ مِن فُؤادِ خَليلِه

مَحَلَّ اِعتِمادٍ مِن فُؤادِ مُحَمَّدِ

So no heart of a friend is emptied of his friend's heart,

A place of reliance, from the heart of Muhammad.

وَلَكِنَّها الأَقدارُ تُردي بِلا ظُبى

وَتُصمي بِلا قَتل وَتَرمي بِلا يَدِ

But it is fate that ruins without folly,

And it deafens without killing, and casts without a hand.