1. قُلَيبي من لُويلاتِ الفُكَيرِ

    طُوَيرٌ في سُجَينٍ من سُهَيرِ

    My little heart, from little nights of little thought,

    is a little bird in a little prison of sleeplessness.

  2. جُسيمي من لُويلاتي ذُوَيبٌ

    كأني في بُوَيتٍ من سُقَيرِ

    My little body has melted from my little nights,

    as though I were in a little house of little Saqar.

  3. نُفَيسي من عُمَيلي في بُوَيسٍ

    وليس نُويفعاً فيها غُوَيري

    My little soul is in little misery from my little work,

    and no one other than me is of any little use to it.

  4. يقال رُويهبٌ فيه رُهَيبٌ

    عُجَيبي من شُرَيرٍ في خُوَيري

    They say: a little monk with a little fear within.

    I marvel a little at the little evil within my little good.

  5. عُمَيري في قُوَينينٍ صُوَينٍ

    مُحَيريسُ الشُهَيرُ من الدُهَير

    My little life is within a little protective rule,

    its little month guarded against little time.

  6. ومع ذياك إني في شُقَيٍّ

    مُحَيميلُ الأُثَيم على ظُهَيري

    Yet despite that, I am in little misery,

    laden with little sin upon my little back.

  7. دُوَيري من ضُجَيري في سُجَيسٍ

    شُوَيطينُ الدُوَيرةِ والدُوَير

    My little monastery is in little turmoil from my little fretfulness;

    I am a little devil of the little house and the little monastery.

  8. عُبَيدُ بُطَينتي وبها شُغَيلي

    فُكَيري في أُوَيقات السُكَير

    A little slave to my little gluttony, and my little concern is with it;

    my little thought is in the little moments of little drunkenness.

  9. عُوَيدٍ كالسُلَيك إلى أُثَيمي

    حُيَيٌّ كالحُيَيَّةِ في الوُكَير

    A little returner, like al-Sulayk, to my little sin;

    lively as a little snake in the little nest;

  10. كُسَيلانٌ عُنَيدَ أُمَيرِ ربِّي

    سُكَيران العُقَيل بلا خُمَير

    a little sluggard at my Lord's little command;

    a little drunk in my little mind, without even a little wine.

  11. وصرتُ مُثَيل سمعٍ كالمُعَيدي

    سُوَيرٌ في البُوَيدة والحُضَير

    And I have become a little byword of hearsay, like al-Muʿaydi,

    a little wanderer in the little desert and the little settled lands.

  12. عُقَيلي في عُوَيلمنا دُوَيرٌ

    جُسَيمي في الأُخَيَّة في دُوَير

    My little mind circles about in our little world;

    my little body is bound by the little tether in a little monastery.

  13. عُمَيلي كالمُوَيت بلا حُسَيسٍ

    كأني من جُهَيلي في قُبَير

    My little work is like a little dead thing, without the least feeling;

    as though, through my little ignorance, I were in a little grave.

  14. مُطَيليقُ اللُسَينِ بلا أُدَيبٍ

    كأني في أُسَيدٍ أو نُمَير

    My little tongue runs free, without the least courtesy,

    as though I were in a little lion or a little leopard.

  15. وُعَيظي والقُوَيل بلا فُعَيلٍ

    تراني كالهُزَيِّر في الزُهَير

    My little preaching and little speech are without the least action;

    you see me like a little nightingale among the little blossoms.

  16. دُمَيعي من جُفَيني من نُدَيمي

    بُحَيرٌ في بُحَيرٍ في بُحَير

    My little tears, from my little eyelid, from my little remorse,

    are a little sea within a little sea within a little sea,

  17. جُوَيرٍ كالقُوَيق على خُدَيدي

    مُقَيريحُ الجُفَين من السُهَير

    flowing like the Quwayq over my little cheek,

    my little eyelid sore from little sleeplessness.

  18. وتيّاكَ السُوَيعة لي رُجَيٌّ

    بُكَيرٌ بل طُهَيرٌ في البُكَير

    And at that little hour, I have a little hope:

    a little virgin—nay, a little purity among little virgins.

  19. عُرَيش اللَه نُرتِ في سُمَيٍّ

    فما نور الشُمَيسة والقُمَير

    God's little throne, you shone in a little heaven;

    what, then, is the light of the little sun and the little moon?

  20. عليك سلام ربي ما تبدّى

    ضُوَيُّ نُوَيرةٍ وسَنى نُوَير

    My Lord's peace be upon you as long as there appears

    the little gleam of a little fire and the radiance of a little light.