1. ولما تراءينا الهلال بدا لنا

    محيا حبيبٍ لم يغب قط عن فكري

    And when we looked for the crescent, there appeared to us

    the face of a beloved who had never left my thoughts.

  2. فقلت عجيبٌ أن يرى البدر هكذا

    تماماً ونحن الأن في أول الشهر

    So I said, “How strange that the full moon should be seen thus—

    in its fullness, while we are now at the beginning of the month!”