1. O lightening of knowledge, tell of its rarities
Of its beauties and gems

2. Of its goals from the valley of Yamamah
Of its inhabitants, of the borders of its watchtowers

3. Of the eyes, of the beautiful eye, of the
Blushing cheek, of tears and their abundance

4. Flowing, it came narrating the nightchat
Of embers rising as fire from its feathers

5. So its narrative came from a glance thatcaptivated you
To the innermost being of the ardent lover and its apparent

6. Lightening of Yamamah, do not laugh, can't you see
The carnelian of my tears flowed versified like its rain

7. For the unique lightening, the heart is passionate while
It has folded with yearning for its displayer

8. It has folded it but not like the foot
Of the archers of lovers, not from the eye of its onlooker

9. O captivator of hearts, wait, you own it
Do not hasten what is enslaved by its captivator

10. Though I am far from home, an expatriate
Between two dwellings of estrangement and its departure

11. I console myself hoping for union from my brother
Whose correspondence sprouted informing me of its views

12. And the soul did not fulfill parting from him
Before fate played its tricks between us

13. O guide of the caravan, you read the sorrow of my brother
It's cover conveyed what was in his conscience

14. Take it from the eye narrating the state of its writer
Of his heart, of his innermost being, of his secrets

15. Against him, his jealous women stood
And fate remains empty of reproachers

16. So he has no intimate but sleeplessness, and sees
No companion but night and its darkness

17. As for me, peace on him from a heart
That pities, so do not bid the zephyr farewell to its threads

18. Do not gloat over me, enviers I left
Their blame behind my back unseen

19. I wonder at them while my fate is all wonder
They harbored for me an unseen nature

20. I had no sin but loving you
As if it has become one of its sources

21. If Ja'far is an old creed for me
Then I don't care about the harm of its denier

22. Then greetings as long as a moon appears
And a star of fortune shines from its homes

23. A passionate greeting, its delicate garb burdened
After its strength, from its tribulations

24. A greeting from one whose hands time has played with
Who spent the night condemned by its injustice

25. This time does not deplete its wonders
It still shows the traitorous betrayal of the free man