1. يا ابنَ النَّبيِّ النداءُ من كبدٍ

    نِيرانُها لا تَزالُ تُحرِقُني

    O son of the Prophet, this cry comes from a liver

    Whose fires never cease to burn me.

  2. وكلُّ أذنٍ عنِّي بِها صَمَمٌ

    فلَيسَ خَلقاً سِواكَ يَسمعُني

    And every ear is deaf to me,

    So no creature but you hears me.

  3. كأنَّ حالي إذا اعتَرضتُكمُ

    لم تَعتَرِضها نَوائبُ الزَّمنِ

    As though my condition, when I come before you,

    Had never been assailed by the calamities of time.