1. بكت السماء شجوها لبعادكم

    عند الصباح فألقيت في رحابكم

    The sky wept its sorrow at your absence.

    At dawn, it was then cast into your courtyards.

  2. فترنمت من وصلها لقبابكم

    حب الغمام من سوقه بجمالكم

    Then it sang at its union with your domes.

    The cloud's hailstones, driven by your beauty,

  3. هجم البساط لينظرن سناءكم

    فصفا له من ورد خد جنابكم

    Rushed onto the carpet to behold your radiance.

    Then clarity came to it from the rose of your noble cheek.

  4. مثل الشموس غدت تنور ببابكم

    نجواهم مهما سمعت خطابكم

    Like suns, it came to shine at your gate.

    Their secret converse, whenever I heard your speech.

  5. عذر له لا يستطاع فراقكم

    يا سادة فوق البدور بهاؤكم

    He has an excuse: parting from you cannot be endured.

    O masters, your splendor surpasses the full moons.

  6. لا زلت شمسا في سماء فرقد

    تسمو السماء في سماء معطرد

    May you ever remain a sun in Farqad's sky.

    The sky rises within a sky [last word unclear].

  7. سمحمد ومحمد ومحمد

    نرجو الإله منفضله بمحمد

    S-Muhammad [unclear form], and Muhammad, and Muhammad.

    We beseech God for His bounty, through Muhammad,

  8. أن لا يحول مقلتي عن ربعكم

    سجم السحاب ذيوله لبساطكم

    That He not turn my eye away from your abode.

    The cloud poured its trailing skirts onto your carpet.

  9. عند الصراح معزى بكم

    وشموس صبح أسفرت لحسابكم

    At the pure [sense unclear], consoled by you.

    And suns of morning shone forth on your behalf.

  10. حب الغمام من سوقه لجمالكم

    هجم البساط لينظرن سناءكم

    The cloud's hailstones, driven toward your beauty,

    Rushed onto the carpet to behold your radiance.

  11. ها الأرض قد لبست جمال ولائكم

    والغصن مال من سكره لهنائكم

    Behold, the earth has donned the beauty of devotion to you.

    And the bough leaned in its intoxication, for your joy.

  12. زمانكم

    عذر له لا يستطيع فراقكم

    Your time.

    He has an excuse: he cannot bear to part from you.

  13. يا سادة فوق البدور بهاؤكم

    عجبا لشمس قد بدت من

    O masters, your splendor surpasses the full moons.

    How wondrous—a sun that has appeared from...

  14. وعودها طود الأسود ومفرد

    فغدت تقول لصده غيد

    And its stem is a mountain of lions, and peerless.

    Then graceful maidens began to speak at his turning away.

  15. نرجو الإله من فضله بمحمد

    أن لا يحول مقلتي عن ربعكم

    We beseech God for His bounty, through Muhammad,

    That He not turn my eye away from your abode.