1. يَا أيُّهَا القَومُ إني سَائِلٌ ألَكُم

    تَعَلُّقٌ بالتى تسبي الفُؤَادَ لَكُم

    O people, I ask: do you have

    an attachment to her who takes your heart captive?

  2. هَل هذِه قِصةٌ وَحدِى انفَرَدتُ بها

    جَوَابُ مَريمَ لِى من عام أوَ لَكُم

    Is this a story that I alone experienced—

    Maryam’s reply to me a year ago—or did she answer you too?

  3. وفي الحَشَا زَفرَةٌ مِن حَرِّ نَارِكُمُ

    تُؤزني أنَّ تَكسٍ مِن وَتأتِ لَكُم

    And in my breast is a sigh from the heat of your fire.

    It goads me—[the remainder is unclear as written].