1. O lightning that flashes bright
Rising from the hills of Najd

2. Now hidden, now in sight
Your brilliance fills the meadows

3. For you my passion and desire
And longing will not fade

4. You are my being, my heart
My ribs and bones are made

5. My rising up and sitting down
My worship and my bowed head

6. My ablution and my prayer
My praise and awe instead

7. My fasting and my alms age
Then pilgrimage once said

8. You're my devotion and my way
My patience and bowed head

9. You're all of me and part of me
My sleep and want instead

10. The cosmos entirely
Is only you, O crowds

11. Elders, young ones, roots and shoots
Life, death, food and need

12. Figures in the soul's eye
Alarming changes indeed

13. Quick gatherings for them
Whose source is a ancient deed

14. Or like a shadow or water
Pouring out springs freed

15. And in short this is
A candle, its flames feed