1. The bucket's cross appeared amidst its stars
It stopped men from worshipping their rigidity

2. So your Lord is Allah who created the planets
And initiated Pleiades, Orion and the Heart

3. And the full moon declined after its perfection
As if the darkness was breaking its heart

4. And brought rain closer to Iraq but it wasn't
Lawful when eloquence specified nor a dress

5. And pictured the shooting star in its orbit
If He wished it would become a dog over its ashes

6. And cast on earth the laid down beasts so they grazed
With the wild laid down beast watching for food

7. And brought down from it the bull bellowing strenuously
So its dewlaps and jowls clung to the fetters

8. And the ostriches of the air after their loftiness
Became in vain among the ostriches of the livestock not safe from defeat

9. And sent down a whale in the sky so He added
It to the fish in the greenness so it admitted being captured

10. And inhabited in a narrow hole of dust
The stars of darkness in a burrow that refused holes