ما الزهر ما ما الرحمن ما الحلل

ما الروق ما الورد ما التيجان ما الأسل

What is the flower, what is the Merciful, what are the adornments

What is the garden, what is the rose, what are the crowns, what is the sweet root

ما الريح ما النرجس الفتاه ما السواسن

ما الند ما العنبر السحري ما المضل

What is the wind, what is the narcissus, the charming one, what are the lilies

What is the softness, what is the amber, the magical one, what is the confusion

ما الخود ما الظبي ما عقد الجمان على

نحر الصدور لديه الوصل والأمل

What are the cheeks, what is the gazelle, what is the necklace of pearls around

The necks of the breasts, it has connection and hope

ما السعد ما اليمن ما الإصباح بالحبب

ما الدهر ما الظلم ما الزرجون ما العسل

What is the happiness, what is the blessing, what is the morning with love

What is time, what is injustice, what is the little garden, what is honey

ما الدر ما الأنس ما العقيان السدق

ما الثغر ما الليل ما الصفاء ما الغزل

What is the pearl, what is intimacy, what are the sweetest fruits

What are the lips, what is the night, what is the serenity, what is the amorous verse

يعنين عمر غدت في خدرها قمر

زهت تتيه على بدر بدا زحل

It means the life of Omar became in her charm like the moon

It missed wandering on a full moon that disappeared

الغمام إذا استمطرنها مطرا

فكأسها عبد أم الوصل مشتعل

The clouds if we wring rain out of them

Its cup becomes a slave while the connection burns

ها ظبية أسفا

نبكي على زهر في السطر نكسل

Oh gazelle

We cry over a flower lying down lazy in the line

كأنه في دياج الليل دان له

بدر للثم ثغور الظلم مستدل

As if it were in the dark of night a full moon

Yielding to the lips of the injustice, evident

يستنشق الشيح من أزهار روضتها

بسلاف اللعس منهلل

It inhales the aroma from the flowers of her garden

With the cheers of splendor, an overflowing spring

عنجها جمعت ضدين في حلل به

سهم لصيد ظباء الحي مبتهل

Her bend gathered two contraries in garments wherein is

An arrow for hunting the gazelles of life, praying

لله من حرق في الطرس مسكنها

كأنها الغير في الإسراء تحتمل

By God who burned longing in the pebbles of her abode

It is as though it were the unrivalled one enduring the ascension

تحكي بما في الطرس من زهر

فظلها بصدور الرقم معتدل

She tells of what is in the pebbles of flowers

So her shadow in breasts of gazelles is moderate

وجوهر الثغر بين اللعس أو درر

أو شمس بدر عليه الجو مشتمل

And the essence of the lips or pearls between splendor

Or sun, full moon covered by the atmosphere

وعقد قرط الظبي أو غرر

أو جيد ريم لديه الحسن مندلل

And necklace of gazelle pearls or treasures

Or polished neck for which beauty is inclined

وغادة خضبت بالتبر أو زهر

أو بنت روض عليه المزن منهطل

And a doe dyed with yellow or flower

Or a meadow wherein prosperity pours forth

كأنها اللؤلؤ المنضود قد وشيت

براح ظبي له الأملاك تنتقل

It is as though she were strung pearl made luminous

With the scent of a gazelle, for it the angels move about

في الرقمتين غدت لبنى مشعشعة

عن ثغر بدر

In the two cheekbones, for Leyla it became scintillating

From the lips of a full moon