1. I found you after losing hope in you, so I applauded
The wings in my heart fluttering with love for you

2. And the whispering lasted two hours and an hour
With your eyelids speaking of passion and fervor

3. Asking me about what happened in his absence
Beauty like flowers of paradise shining

4. Asking me if you were in my mind
And my thoughts, while the fire of distance destroys love

5. Yes, you were in my mind and in my thoughts
So I yearn for the garden of beauty and worry

6. Has your beauty been absent from my mind for a moment?
While you are a stranger far away, drowned in estrangement

7. I reluctantly traveled from New Cairo,
Your tears pouring and your heart perturbed

8. Helwan has become your house and the nights have passed
While my soul away from you is dying

9. I stand at the gate of the station, Master Zuhra
And ask about the train schedule and ask

10. The gate of the station has become a lover's Kaaba
To which an ascetic makes a devout pilgrimage

11. When the steam whistle blows, I say perhaps
It is a harbinger with news descending from your sky

12. And I look anxiously at every face
As if you kiss every prisoner

13. The residents of Helwan, I greet you
With a longing that rages wildly within me

14. For you, my protectors, there is an ember
That when kindled, the whole existence trembles

15. I found you after losing hope in you, so I shook hands
With eyes that lovingly pity me and are kind

16. My poetry converses with him, and poetry has a wine
That consoles the soul captive, so he is freed

17. I say to him what I do not tell a mind
Tormented by passion, as it speaks

18. Come to my chest, come and do not fear
For you are glued to the lover's bosom

19. This universe roared with its clamor
And erupted with raging jinn that weep and play music

20. Storms raging, complaining with tears
Dripping from the pouring rain with fervor

21. The trees of the garden struggle with their misery
With their trunks, as the heat knows severity in harm

22. When the wind shakes the branches, they cling together
And their branches tremble from the wind’s cruelty

23. A warrior father's children have no fear
Of the vicissitudes of fate advancing harm

24. I found you, yes I found you, and passion
Is raging in the depths of my soul, rebelling

25. I almost faded with a kiss
With its breaths the fire of longing ignites

26. Had it not been for fearing the Most High in love
I would have been found killed, shrouded by you

27. Eyes lined with kohl, shining eyelids
With them, a path is paved for the youth enchanted by light

28. When our eyes converse, her bracelets
Submit to the fire of love and bow down

29. Cheeks like saffron, their perfume arose
So its fragrance became a lover sighing

30. Are you my prisoner in this poem, and my captor
With a glance to the strings of the instrument resisting?

31. You will know what I have harvested with my voice
You will know that I am a deliberate killer

32. Four years have passed, and our passion
Each day in the fever of fervor is squared

33. Four years have passed, and our bliss
Each day in heaven's love rises

34. When cheers and the night prostrate
I imagine it is your voice thundering

35. Saying in one moment
That the soul's beloved to the soul returns

36. You returned to my heart, so it roared, and its pocket
You returned to my soul, so its fervor arose

37. By the command of love, you came, and love is the ruler
Who is obeyed despite the judges' words

38. When we converse in the night, its darkness
Flies from the subtlety of conversing

39. Come, let us count for the universe its days of tranquility
For with me, when I converse with my soul, is its peace

40. Is it you, is it you? Answer me, by my blood
I can hardly believe the joy of my soul

41. Did the guards believe in love for a moment
And fear the painful estrangement, so they had pity

42. A thousand greetings to them for their kindness
And a thousand, thousands from the heart are spent

43. Did the guards become heedless and go astray?
No! They have faltered in your light's prison

44. Are you with me, face to face, and throbbing
To the throbbing of my hope in you, so you hear?

45. Leave Helwan house, I have been away from it
Because of your absence, and the beloved is obedient to the lover

46. Come back to New Cairo again
For in it, when you return, is amusement and refuge

47. Come to it, for it is a house of beauty
Come to it, for it is a square of love