تلكَ الجنانُ قطوفهنَّ دَوانِ

تلكَ الجنانُ قطوفهنَّ دَوانِ

تَشدو حَمائمُها على الأغصانِ

تَشدو حَمائمُها على الأغصانِ

Are those gardens whose fruits are within reach,

Those gardens, their fruits are verse collections

their doves singing upon the branches?

Their doves singing on the branches

أم صُدغُ مَعشوقٍ تَصَوْلَجَ مسكُهُ

أم صُدغُ مَعشوقٍ تَصَوْلَجَ مسكُهُ

من وردِ وَجنَتهِ على ميدانِ

من وردِ وَجنَتهِ على ميدانِ

Or a beloved’s temple-lock, its musk curved like a polo mallet

Or the cheek of a beloved, its musk exhaling

upon a playing field of roses from his cheek?

From his roses and garden into the field

أم روضةٌ بيدِ السحابِ مَروضةٌ

أم روضةٌ بيدِ السحابِ مَروضةٌ

لنسيمها لَعِبٌ بغُصنِ البانِ

لنسيمها لَعِبٌ بغُصنِ البانِ

Or a garden tended by the hand of the clouds,

Or a meadow, tended by the hand of clouds

whose breeze plays with a bān-tree branch?

Its breeze playing with the twigs of frankincense

أم شعرُ أظرفِ مَن مَشى فوق الثّرى ال

أم شعرُ أظرفِ مَن مَشى فوق الثّرى ال

حسنِ بنِ عبد اللهِ ذي الإحسانِ

حسنِ بنِ عبد اللهِ ذي الإحسانِ

Or the verse of the most charming man to walk upon the earth—al-

Or the poetry of the most gentle to walk the earth

Hasan ibn Abd Allah, the benevolent?

Al-Hasan ibn Abdullah, the beneficent