1. Your veil is a night.. surrounding your face that has faded
So I was amazed when brightness was combined with darkness

2. Sitting together: a night and a sunny dawn
As if a full moon dressed up in darkness..!

3. She walked away.. So I said: a gazelle walking on
my chest.. So it’s right for my throbbing heart to tremble..!

4. She walked heavily, pretending to be sad
I wished my ribs were a cradle

5. To attach her steps to them... And let us sit together
Luckily taking “al-Shabaika” as a furnished place

6. So remnants of a lover were alerted in me
Who once was smeared with passions

7. And a savage charm examined me
I found my heart inclined toward it, allured

8. She spread the cloud of her perfume and breathed in
My soul an aroma that excites those in the Hijab

9. Moments passed.. each one hoping
From his silence toward speaking an exit

10. I greeted her... And claimed that I was a wanderer
Who lost the way and missed what he sought

11. She replied with the like of my greeting... But she
Added more gentleness and coquetry

12. She laughed and the grass shone in her orbits
I thought the night was a gladdening field

13. And she snorted a sigh mixing its embers
With water and a whisper that almost melted

14. The stranger asked the strange woman, she said stuttering
The “r” in a mouth that melted and froze:

15. We came on a pilgrimage.. and our group is about
To return.. So the riders tightened and prepared

16. The departure is close to “Damascus” so our family
Prepared supplies and naphthalene for us

17. So I replied and my mouth was almost escaping
From my face to reside on her trembling lip:

18. You, people of Damascus, your beauty has conquered hearts
And many stubborn and armed were humiliated

19. Between us is kinship of the Euphrates and neighborhood
And ancestry roots and strangeness of those who were cloven

20. The neighbor has a right, If you know, and the like of it
Is the kinship right so keep me guided

21. The apples shone in her cheek out of shyness
Increasing the beauty with shining

22. Two doves fluttered under a cloak
That the morning breeze played with making them jerk

23. And over the mirrors of the neck an excess of smoothness My sight rolled down the shining neck
She veiled.. I think she has veiled

24. A coerced eyelid on my eyes
The shirt slit was fastened and she lowered

25. A scarf with the color of the twin radiances dazzled
She Said: and the dawn was starting to rise:

26. Tomorrow we’ll leave before the time of duskiness
So visit Damascus land where my clan is

27. And my father if you were the wish and the sought
Visit us a night and a morn

28. And return with my heart crowned
Or if you were joking know: my carnation

29. Can be, if you want seduction, unkempt
And the scent of the rose of my garden will be

30. A flaming touch, raging
Visit, you’ll find welcome and a loving home

31. Who sought the beloved succeeded when he visited