1. Why does it glow red, do you see it
Restless, restless, it woke from its gloom

2. The east opened its eyelid for it
It reached the fervent heat at its end

3. Or do you see it as a flame and the clouds
Above it like smoke that rose high

4. It circled around and shone bright
Like embers spreading their glow

5. Its red garments fluttered
On the horizon’s flanks and donned its finest raiment

6. It appeared bare, resplendent
There shone a radiance that makes the years youthful

7. O God make firm my faith, for one day
The messenger thought it a god

8. You exalted the dawn and the sun when
You said “By the sun” and “By its brightness”

9. A glance to the east, the dawn’s splendor
Has a charm that cannot be matched

10. Paintings made by the greatest painter
With a beauty made lasting then erased

11. An adornment on the horizon, its delight
Joined the earth and its sky

12. The light wiped the tears of night
From the cheeks of flowers when it kissed them

13. Lost in kissing them recklessly
Their cheeks and lips blushed red

14. Each loose branch in its shadow
A vain tail fluttering over peers

15. It is a mirror on its surface
God’s light glows bright in its polish

16. Each day it travels
Between east and west of earth

17. You cannot see it in one place
Impossible for an eye to trace its steps

18. If a cloud comes between it
It penetrates, melting through the obstruction

19. Ever since Adam saw it
In the prime of its youth

20. Everything has a name, does it travel
When hidden behind its coverings

21. The weather sulked mournfully
Weeping, crying with misery

22. A jewel adorning the highest heavens
With its brilliance, then veiled in the west

23. It scattered the stars as eyes behind it
Looking where it journeyed and strayed

24. Would that I knew, as it illuminates creation
Each day with its beauty and glow

25. Does it see one who spoke of it
As I did, of the wanderers, and conveyed it?