1. Where are you, oh breeze of the morning,
Your spreading in the days of youth,

2. Whenever you passed by us,
The heart inclined to passion?

3. How strange you are, for you have
Folded a wondrous spreading.

4. So refresh us at dawn
And remind us of Zainab.

5. This spring is delicate,
Gilding the horizons with gold.

6. And the night in it is moonlit
Spreading radiance on the dark.

7. So rouse the heart of a young man
Who tossed and turned with passion.

8. A lovesick suitor whose tongue is eloquent
Uttered the most amazing poems.

9. He takes elegy to
Those lands as a means.

10. In the morning he went out
With disheveled hair.

11. He inscribed the line of love before
He matured in it as a scribe.

12. He shed red tears
His whiteness was stained with blood.

13. He spent his life
Dragging the train of the beloved.

14. And he came to their dwellings
But he blamed them.

15. He hoped to return from
Sadness to joy again.

16. That he may go back to his people
With his purpose turning back.

17. But they made him suffer
And ignited his flame.

18. And they fought with his estrangement
Fought and fought and fought.

19. This is the tormentor of their lips
Whose heart they tortured.

20. And this is the prophet of their beauty
Narrating the news in their absence.

21. The state of their servant has softened
And his body turned to dust.

22. And his heart never stopped
Burning and trembling for them.

23. He herds the stars at night
Yearning and star to star.

24. Tell them not to make
My torch and firewood rotten.

25. I honored them, glorified them
And concealed it in my neck.

26. And I have seen no one but them
And sought no other desire.

27. And I have witnessed no one but them
A mother or father, by my life.

28. And I, in loving them,
Relish fatigue.

29. And if they made my share
After my fervor, anguish.

30. He attacked my chastity and lied
And said an untrue word.

31. And claimed that I
Abandoned them for another.

32. Even in their absence from me
I was absent from others.

33. And I never raised
My heart to others.

34. Examine my heart, it has
Spurned others, desiring them.

35. And if my hands were played with
By the hands of morning drinkers,

36. How can its secret settle
While love hides it?

37. And if they try to uncover the cover
They would say, it has been disciplined.

38. Their tail has dragged
Behind my skirt.

39. And after that, their figure
Is as if it never came near.

40. My being is lost in them
And it was not deserved.

41. And I have no obligation
If all of me is gone.

42. If their eyes do not see me
I will not enjoy a drink.

43. With them is my annihilation and survival
As they mixed and stirred.

44. Agitating, disturbing
Entwining, confused.

45. Separate, then joined
Apart, then together.

46. The beloved showed kindness
And consented.

47. And said to me generously
Arise, stranger of strangers.

48. So I arose, lost, my apparition
Fluttering, veiled.

49. I fly from my heart to him
A brown hawk in passion.

50. Distancing and nearing
East and west.

51. Affirming, moaning
Rewarding, lamenting.

52. I rise in the morning shining
A starry guidance.

53. I send from me a knight
Who composes a procession in him.

54. He brings forth in his path
A wonder to the knowledgeable.

55. He did not seek in the course of love
Any prestige.