1. Holding two houses or breaths counting breaths,
And the whispers of Sanaa or engraving on paper,

2. Or a garden that gathered the scattered flowers,
Figures of light for kinds and races,

3. A string that the lyrical poems would want to be
A necklace around the neck or a crown on top of the head,

4. Inked with the blackness of ink, its whiteness,
Oh how beautiful is its gloominess with the light of the lamp,

5. It revived so it revived Abu Hayyan its newcomer,
And delighted the soul with whatever companion,

6. O day of happiness accessible, it has become mine
With it soon and my devil with it disgraced,

7. You brought out the stars of my happiness when they disappeared as
You ignited after obscurity the light of the wick,

8. The self did not think that time would be generous with what
It was stingy with when its heart was cruel,

9. Grey hair returned to youth and sorrow to joy
So my Umayyad heart became Abbasid and the head,

10. Since I belonged to the star of religion, the stars disappeared from
My heart the sorrow and my chronic illness became well,

11. And since my stranger knew him
My bereavements disappeared and my weddings approached in time,

12. So my life's mouth is smiling and its side
Is soft, and it used to be frowning and grim,

13. With the star the people of chastity are guided and does
He who is guided by the star among people get lost?

14. The Lord of knowledges and Granter of spiritual insights, leading
The gentle one of excellent morals and appearance,

15. He appoints the good and makes it forgotten and remembers what
Gives him in gratitude of a remembering companion,

16. He revived with Yahya one with an easy life and a taster
And whoever intends him harm or poverty,

17. I will thank the One who bestowed on me blessings
The gratitude of the cloud, the meadows and the myrtle,