1. From your being the lightning passes gleaming through the gloom
You glowed from its Orient so both of you glow

2. As if when he bought the clear from you
The one who is darkness itself smiled, a wide smile

3. A pouring rain making clouds as if
He's embracing a waist in your loose robes

4. He sways when he sways back from you
With a pleat that cannot stand still from passion

5. As if a hand had cloven through his clouds
Slits or parted a closed robe wide

6. Hither that we may greet the lone full moon and the bent one
And the slanting one on those drawings and the stumbling one

7. The dales of India in a breathing soil
Are saturated with its perfume and are coloured

8. A felicitous one who shows a felicitous crescent
Dyed red before the lovers and reddened

9. If she moves her flexuous shape, a trembling slender form
A sandhill behind her comes tumbling down

10. I compete in a necklace that kisses her throat
And I envy a bracelet on it and a pendant

11. Indeed I won the day of sweet glances with a look
But it met only a full moon that rose and set

12. And the falling of my tears made me happy as if
The pomegranate seeds of this day fell and rolled

13. I enjoy what your wings conceal in you
And I find the separation bitter and the night sweet

14. I always find you slipping away
Wandering at night or traversing it with a torch

15. His slumber turned from us so it was as if
With John's morning he saluted the shining dawn

16. The planets danced for us in every sparkling
The sailor stars bent in it and twined

17. We walked past troops of thankfulness from every hill
When we whiled away the night with your name radiant

18. You have inundated with abundant dew so neither lightning
Gleamed by you, nor the star Canopus glittered

19. And only recognized your clan, familiar
And your shadow, murky

20. And never saw but those who string vows
To govern a realm or a courier fully armed

21. And if the insolence of Sauromatian erupted
Covering the ignorant horizon raging

22. You pierced it in grueling battle attacking
And plunged into the thick of death, churning

23. So it saw but a flashing lightning bolt
Piercing it or a blazing planet

24. My soul is ransom for a glorious magnanimous one
Who turns the millstone of highness on the pole of phantasma

25. And master of masters - when you see him
You recognize the Yemeni carpenter, crowned

26. He shone in his gatherings and retinues
My eyes never saw a view more dazzling

27. He awakened manners after their dormancy
And renewed the pure practice, outlining a method

28. His nature has probity - his contest is unadulterated
And poison is but to be tasted and mixed

29. Lo, the calamity of an awful day does not frighten him
So the old lion will not shudder, terrified

30. He reached the Far West with his domination
So he left it empty and it had been populated

31. Looking down on enemies, striking among them
With the blond swords and the brown spears

32. Nights of wars in which you brought Jafar
Exploits which hope did not fail to bring about in you

33. And how much the eyelids stayed up seeing
The suns of perception in the gloom of night

34. So he noticed a sharp rage on your right
And a generous eye on your left, saddled

35. And how many a day with it is fiercely fateful
In which the enemies pray before its blazing ember

36. You stand between the ranks speaking
When the day of pride and eloquence splutters

37. O Zakariyya of wonderful verse inspire therein
Events to enchant verse, so inspire

38. That rhymes congratulate you without end
And you would be embarrassed to delight and rejoice

39. So go on hoping for youth and its prime
In us are expected tidings and desires sought