1. لَمّا حَصَلنا عَلى العَشرِ الَّتي بَقِيَت

    وَأَدبَرَ الشَهرُ عَنّا بَعدَ إِقبالِ

    When we reached the ten days that remained,

    And the month turned away from us after its coming,

  2. وَآنَسَت لَهَواتي بَعدَ ما لَفَظَت

    طَعمَ الصِيامِ حَديثاً طَعمَ شَوّالِ

    And my palate sensed—after it had spat out

    The taste of fasting just recently—the taste of Shawwal,

  3. أُريتُ ذا رَبعَةٍ في العَينِ مِن قِصَرٍ

    وَذاكَ أَطوَلُ مِن شاهِ بنِ ميكالِ

    I was shown a man of middling stature, short to the eye,

    Yet that man was taller than Shah ibn Mikal.