أَلمِم بِزَينَبَ إِنَّ البَينَ قَد أَفِدا

قَلَّ الثَواءُ لَئِن كانَ الرَحيلُ غَدا

Yearn for Zainab though parting's ordained

Few are the tents where farewell's not gained

أَمسى العِراقِيُّ لا يَدري إِذا بَرَزَت

مَن ذا تَطَوَّفَ بِالأَركانِ أَو سَجَدا

The Iraqi knows not, when the dawn uplifts

Who circumambulates the Holy House or bows prostrate in prayer

لَعَمرُها ما أَراني إِن نَوىً نَزَحَت

وَدامَ ذا الحُبُّ إِلّا قاتِلي كَمَدا

I swear if she travels I'll never stay

As long as this love endures but her shooter lies dead

بَكرٌ دَعا فَأَتى عَمداً لِشَقوَتِهِ

ما جاءَ مِن ذاكَ إِن غَيّاً وَإِن رَشَدا

Bakr invited it by his own misfortune

Whether he came there lost or rightly-guided

مَن يَنهَ يُعصَ وَمَن يَحسِد وَلا وَأَبي

ما ضَرَّني مَن وَشى عِندي وَمَن حَسَدا

He who's warned but disobeys, who envies me without cause

Neither slanderers nor envious ones have harmed me

هَذا يُقَرِّبُهُ مِنها وَعَبرَتُها

يَومَ الفِراقِ فَما أَرعى وَما اِقتَصَدا

This draws her close, her tears the day we parted

She heeded no limits and no restraints

قَد حَلَفَت لَيلَةَ الصَورَينِ جاهِدَةً

وَما عَلى المَرءِ إِلّا الحَلفُ مُجتَهِدا

She swore a solemn oath the night we crossed the bridge

And oaths are all that bind a man intent

لِتِربِها وَلَأُخرى مِن مَناصِفِها

لَقَد وَجَدتُ بِهِ فَوقَ الَّذي وَجَدا

By her soil and that of her neighbor

In him I found more than others have obtained

لَو جُمِّعَ الناسُ ثُمَّ اِختيرَ صَفوَتُهُم

شَخصاً مِنَ الناسِ لَم أَعدِل بِهِ أَحَدا

If all mankind were gathered and its elite

Were chosen, none would equal him

وَقَد نَهَيتُ فُؤادي عَن تَطَلُّبِها

فَاِغتَشَّني وَأَتى ما شاءَ مُعتَمِدا

I warned my heart to stop desiring her

But it disobeyed me and did as it thought fit