1. The lightning of fever has a covenant with me and a compact,
When it gleams in Nejd through my tears it shines,

2. I see it through an eye when its teardrop sparkles,
And a throbbing heart when it throbs,

3. And I was distracted by lightning only because
It passes by my Sa`dah and its flashing glitters,

4. My loved ones, how is the way to meet
It is hard for us that separation lasts,

5. You went far away so life has no comfort or
In the rest of my life days any grace

6. I ask it for news of you and whenever
It repeats talk of you I keep sobbing

7. And from my anguish I conceal the love and fret over it
That my tears reveal secrets though they speak

8. I rationalize to myself rationalizations hopefully
The talks of wishes prove true

9. The one who gathes the honey of pillows insists on his
Coyness so he doesn’t yearn or is compassionate,

10. My visitor came to me without an appointment, so I found him
Dainty wares in merchants hands knead perfume,

11. On his face the dye of dusk so I thought it was
A daytime through which the shining sun rises,

12. I raised to him the story of tears complaining
So the magic of his eyes in it unleashed,

13. I prolong for him in blame my grievance
So he knows I did wrong so he bows his head

14. Since I asked the wild ox when the sawwaf mourning dove gathering news
With my fervor cooed, the turquoise collared one

15. May God shepherd days for us and nights
That passed and the bough of life flows lush,

16. While we willingly accept the youth and dawn
We frolic with the love of our white days shining

17. My heart wandering without you how it became
Giving excuses in reminiscence but does not melt

18. I gave you keeping the love and you betrayed
And not all our cares are sorrow and burning,

19. Beautiful one showing me the eternal heaven - his friendship –
And his abandonment ember of blaze, how it burns

20. Your Syrian arrows do not transgress his eyelids
But they spear right through the middle of my heart

21. My love in him lessened he who augmented his description
And the last of my fervor in him in unattainable