1. O plain, circular in the skilled hand's grasp,
Its edges greened when the morning sun appeared

2. Since the red-eyed sun began to gaze at it
Her eye turned yellow and blinked jaundiced

3. How could the mother of radiance not abandon it
Angry, excess modesty overtook her

4. How could the seer not look at her when
He realized the truth with a scornful eye

5. The temperament corrector taught him
That all merit lies in rejecting ostentation

6. Yet she only boasts of brilliance
While it contains all the causes of pride

7. The sun left it but a thousand suns visited it
Aligned in two rows

8. Tongues flickering from within a clear crystal
Beaming rays from flames

9. The full moon overlooked them in shock
To see them after having closed his eye

10. What an eyepatch when the plain's night
Returned with the light of day

11. Crowds thronged in it
Every day, throngs of boys and girls

12. Groups from all generations of mankind
Among them clothes and languages diverse

13. A scene, you will not see its like
In Ukaz of the Arabs or Arafat

14. Teeming with people like a frothing sea
In it camels appear like great ships

15. How many biers of the dead I saw
Alongside a bride amid melody and enchantment

16. She proceeds toward hopes and wishes
While it proceeds to be buried in soil

17. And an ugly lout acts insolently
Fooling around between frivolity and play

18. And a fool whose only care is nonsense
Who wasted his mind and sang stupidly

19. Carriages with electricity’s filaments
Signs, fragrances in its enclosure

20. Bearing every charming gazelle
Galloping toward passion, whoever saw her

21. I swear I never saw from the balconies
Of the train cars Turk women but I sigh

22. They are houris lodged in chambers
Amid Eden, though lacking repose

23. The books have varied but we did not find
Chambers flowing rapidly like a flash

24. Transporting the houris to the meadow of bliss
Amid a plain like a delightful garden

25. Slender in stature, voluptuous,
To cast people into ample worry

26. No, by my Lord, it is not so in revelation
This mind strayed in the matter and hesitated

27. They erected for it iron wires
An enclosure that slaps with awe the ruins

28. From it a flag gores the Gemini
In which a lamp is suspended like a banner

29. Between its corners appeared a clock
That will count all the lifespans of nations

30. Its condition expressing for it
Timetables for operating locomotives

31. The convoys sped like blowing wind
Circling water back and forth

32. Plundering the lands with miraculous travel
Between wailing, groaning, and whistling

33. It is no wonder to see them howling
When from Egypt they begin the journey

34. How many lovers boarded them
Parting from loved ones out of necessity

35. Smitten with yearning boarded among them
The winds of longing profoundly stirred him

36. From Damascus lands he left at night
Alleviating the illness by changing the air

37. In Fustat his fervor and longing increased
When he saw it contained what it contained

38. He returned hastily from whence he came
Saying to himself, where can I flee?