1. O lightning, flash in the gloomy darkness
Like a sword, storm with a firm grip

2. Clouds flutter for it in the evening
Weeping gently on the gentle one

3. If you strike ruby or bending willow
O lightning, rain down the dwellings of Zainab

4. My homelands and playgrounds of my youth
So I can play, o lightning, like my youth and be joyous

5. And as you dragged the tails of my adolescence
So drag your clouds over the dwellings and plains

6. Days when nights were like the age of a girl
And I was like that, an adolescent, a boy's age

7. Days with no camels for travels
Days with no sea voyaging in ships

8. We were like saplings grown in a hand
Today we are in hardship and west

9. O heart, do not grieve what is past
For God will relieve all suffering of those in agony

10. I know the sword clashes and then is still
I have seen the moon rise, disappear and return