أَلَم تَسأَلِ الأَطلالَ وَالمَنزِلَ الخَلَق

بِبُرقَةِ أَعواءٍ فَيُخبِرَ إِن نَطَق

Did you not ask the ruins and the old abode

With lightning flashes of clouds, if it would speak?

ذَكَرتُ بِهِ هِنداً وَظِلتُ كَأَنَّني

أَخو نَشوَةٍ لاقى الحَوانيتَ فَاِغتَبَق

I remembered her in India, and I was as if

I was a brother to Nushwah who met the Jinn and embraced.

وَمَوقِفَها وَهناً عَلَينا وَدَمعُها

سَريعٌ إِذا كَفَّت تَحَدُّرَهُ اِتَّسَق

Her stance towards us was weakness and her tears

Flowed swiftly when she held them back aligned.

وَموقِفَ أَترابٍ لَها إِذ رَأَينَني

بَكينَ وَأَبدَينَ المَعاصِمَ وَالحَدَق

And the stance of her female companions when they saw me

Crying, revealing their wrists and throats.

رَأَينَ لَها شَجواً فَعُجنَ لِشَجوِها

جَميعاً وَأَقلَتنَ التَنازُعَ وَالنَزَق

They saw her have sorrow, so they all sympathized with her sorrow

And lessened contention and spite.

إِذِ الحَبلُ مَوصولٌ وَإِذ وُدُّنا مَعاً

جَميعاً وَإِذ تُعطى التَراسُلَ وَالمَلَق

When the rope was connected, and when our love was together,

And when correspondence and tokens were given.

وَقُلنَ اِمكُثي ما شِئتِ لا مَن أَمامَنا

نَخافُ وَلا نَخشى مِنَ الآخِرِ اللَحَق

And they said, "Stay as long as you wish. We do not fear

What is to come nor dread what will overtake."