1. A lightning flashed in the darkness and flickered,
So I remembered the smile of her mouth when it flashed.

2. It was as if when its light lingered
In the gloom of the dark, a drawn sword,

3. Red at its upper part, slender at its middle,
Its blade glittering plated and engraved.

4. A lightning writhing as if its flashes
Were a flame when it lingered and flickered,

5. Appearing and disappearing in the dark while my eyelids,
That ecstasy prevents from closing.

6. And indeed it crept gently, renewing with passion
A pact, and awakening in the night what had been awakened before,

7. And it made me ardent with yearning and ceased to be coy,
And it revived in me the passion of love that had passed.

8. My soul is ransom for one who hindered his pact,
I complained to him but he turned away.

9. And for one angry whom my death in passion would please,
So I die between his anger and pleasure.

10. Sadness descended so the night flamed with his absence,
A fire kindling when the fire of sadness is revived.

11. And if he is rude, I am replaced
With the noble king, compensated.

12. I entrust my matter to Him and one who spends the night
Entrusting his matter to Him is not disappointed.

13. The aid of the weak when he seeks His bounty
And the riches of the poor when he lessens and shakes off.

14. Asked to grant, neither is the word drawn out,
Nor the promise fulfilled from Him.

15. A king of vast domain, ruler mighty of purpose,
His vastness narrowed for its breadth the breadth of space.

16. He enriched us and preferred us with His bounty
And He knew so He compensated for His generosity and replaced.

17. Enticed with love of gifts and hating
One who spends the night hating honors.

18. Bearing the weight of tribulations when the gallant man
Is wearied by the bearing of misfortunes and collapses.

19. And when the vile feign illness to attain it,
They do not find it with His bounty feigning illness.

20. He gives generously and does not begrudge His wealth,
Surely he who shows favor giving little begrudges.

21. The springs of all people decrease in bounty
Except His bounty which does not diminish.

22. Clouds from His munificence poured upon me
Bounty, so my side prospered and flourished.

23. The most high ennobled my worth after
I had been of crumbled building and decayed.

24. O You, King, who gave wealth and clothed
And favored and drew near and entrusted.

25. I carry to thank what You have granted me
A burden, weakened by its weight to stand.

26. I praise You for the merit of what You have given me
Yet I see it longer than my praise and broader.

27. And I see praising all people a tradition
And I see praising You an obligation imposed.

28. And I train praising You empty, so I make it
Easy, and praising other than You difficult training.

29. No pearl of my pearls after You have pleased me
If I do not recite the pleasing ode.

30. Your memory remains until the return and
The term of time passes so it has no passing.

31. And I accompanied life before You miserable
And accompanied it when I accompanied You white.