1. سكنن روعك صاح

    لم أَكن الا لاحضان المحن

    Calm your alarm, friend.

    I was meant only for the arms of affliction.

  2. شخصها حَتّى الصَباح

    لم يفارق مضجعي عند الوسن

    Their figure, until morning,

    did not leave my bed when I grew drowsy.

  3. كَيفَ يلقىالارتياح

    قلب من الراحة اليوم سكن

    How can relief be found

    by a heart that repose has stilled today?

  4. كم تحملت وَكَم

    نبهت اقلامك الشعب وَلَن

    How much you have endured, and how often

    your pens have warned the people—and never will...

  5. كم تكلمت وَلم

    انتبه للوعظ وَالقول الحسن

    How often you have spoken, yet I did not

    heed the admonition and the good words.

  6. هَكَذا الخطب الم

    وَعلى من لاذ بي جار الزَمن

    Thus calamity befell,

    and time wronged whoever sought refuge in me.

  7. مَن تنادي كلما

    صحت أَو وجهت قولا فلمن

    Whom do you call whenever

    you shout or address a word—to whom?

  8. هَل إِلى شعب رَمى

    نفسه بالمَوت لكن ما فطن

    Is it to a people who cast

    themselves into death, but did not realize it?

  9. ان يكن هَذا فَما

    أنتَ عيسى خففن عنك اذن

    If this is so, then

    you are not Jesus; ease your burden, then.

  10. ان كل القَوم في

    سكرات المَوت في زهو وَفَن

    Indeed, all the people are in

    death's throes, amid vanity and art.

  11. همهم وااسفي

    ان يَعيشوا تَحتَ أَثقال الفتن

    Their concern—woe is me!—

    is to live beneath the burdens of strife.

  12. خلهم وَهوَ الوَفي

    راحهم فاِصنَع من الان الكَفَن

    Leave them; he is the faithful one—

    their wine—so make the shroud now.