1. Your love for poetry endowed passions and yearnings
And reawakened in you sensitivities and tastes

2. Today your chest is open for joys
With no distress to close it

3. Stay happy as there is nothing troubling the heart
And sleep calmly as no tears wet the eyes

4. Nature celebrates your arrival in this abode
The wind makes music and the meadow frolics

5. The farm dances joyously, the trees
Sing and sway, leaves and branches

6. The river meanders down the valley's flank
Water babbles over the river rocks

7. In the vineyards hang clusters, adorned
Like necklaces round the throats of maids

8. In the fields, flocks of goats and sheep
Cows and camels, shepherds lead them singing

9. For song, like poetry, has its markets
Their flutes trill loud tunes

10. Echoing through the valleys like horns
The beasts prance freely in the woods

11. Birds chirp merrily in their nests
The sun beams each moment

12. As if her rising etched rays on the eye
The moon floats pious and devout at night

13. Whispering prayers and submission to God
Or a lovelorn watcher, awake and alone

14. While shepherd eyes in the abode slumber
O wakeful witness of the night, sight has not failed you

15. Nor compassion for those sunk in negligence
Descend and join us a little while

16. For we all love the desert's beauty
The hut looks nicer than the planets' spheres

17. The palace with its tiered ceilings vain and false
Tell those who crave for city comforts

18. Dragged by yearning to the metropolis
Leave the cities, let not their glamour tempt you

19. Their air is gloomy as a choking trap
Seek the wilderness, find joy in its expanse

20. With carefree living, safe from want and toil
The nomad life is matchless in its riches

21. Its climate cure for all of illness' ills
The desert valleys are valleys like no other

22. Its horizons have no earthly parallel
Look- amid the huts, a table spreads

23. Set with dishes filled with sustenance
Laid out free for all humanity

24. By a hand that is giving and releasing
My Lord, I thank you - gratitude is Your right

25. None but You can create such good