1. You have conveyed to me much more than I hoped for,
And provided me joy and elation.

2. O youth who raises gardens with palms like the fluttering eyelids,
You have done to minds what the letters ṣād and ḍād do to gentle dispositions,

3. And meanings that illuminate the blackest souls, like meteors blazing through the gloom.
Your illumination has outshone the sun’s light, so what use is the lamp’s glow?

4. We have come to draw its pure, wondrous water, and we have come to it with vessels.
With its strings of pearls it has outshone the necklaces of the jeweler and peddler.