1. How long the night is for the sleepless one
If not for the radiant moon's glance

2. The veil of the clouds lifted from the beloved
Who aimlessly wanders, estranged from home

3. Perhaps sleeplessness rid his eyelids
Of what the wakeful used for the sleepy

4. What deluded you, o gazer
Mounted on a blooming branch

5. That when it breaks, it breaks his eyelids
How strange is the breaker, the broken

6. O you who cast your arrows, wounded
Does the gazer not see the gazers?

7. Your glance in the heart has a chapter
As if a sorcerer's breath

8. If tears are blocked from their flow
They will come pouring down the cheeks

9. I thank his cheer and complain to him
Many a lover in passion is thankful, complaining

10. He visited when night's veil lifted
From the face of a radiant, clairvoyant dawn

11. And the crescent of the fervent darkness
Inscribed a letter on the horizon

12. I said, while the flowers' splendor immersed
In a visage made wet by the morn

13. I don't deny the night and its favor
Though people call it an infidel

14. With it, war rose on its feet
And the confessor admitted to the confessee

15. What tranquility for a heart pierced
By two birds that flew by

16. A visiting specter that my tears returned
So thoughts led me back to reminisce

17. If the flow of tears from their goal is blocked
They will come pouring on the cheek

18. I thank his cheer and complain to him
Many a lover in passion is thankful, complaining

19. He visited when night's veil dropped
From the face of a clear, clairvoyant dawn

20. On his cheek, a letter was inscribed
By the crescent of fervent darkness

21. I said, while flower splendor immersed
In the visage of its rainy morn

22. I don't deny the night and its grace
Though people call it an infidel

23. With it, war rose on its feet
And the confessor admitted to the confessee

24. What tranquility for a heart pierced
By two birds that flew by

25. A visiting specter that my tears returned
So thoughts led me back to reminisce

26. If the flow of tears from their goal is blocked
They will come pouring on the cheek

27. I thank his cheer and complain to him
Many a lover in passion is thankful, complaining

28. The radiant star of the praised tribe
Shining in its glorious dawn

29. The Alghoub clan take refuge in Him
Who cures the stumbler in His affection

30. With rest that benefits and wards off harm
As if Nissan in bountiful rain

31. We compose jewels from His praises
Extracted from His abundant sea

32. In Him are the finest of virtues
Filling the ears of old sayings

33. The caller's amusement, the guide's affection
And the excursionist's delight

34. His deeds are white and his words
Overflow for the arriving and departing

35. How clear is the ambiguous
To the baffled intellect

36. Laws maneuver His pen
And He maneuvers affairs to the Commander