1. زمِّلوني زملوني لا تقل

    إنني الشهر الذي في شهرِناز

    Wrap me up, wrap me up; do not say

    that I am the month within Shahrnaz.

  2. زبرتُ شهرَ الذي قد زبرت

    كفناً من كلِّ حقٍّ ومجاز

    I inscribed the month of what I had inscribed:

    a shroud of every truth and metaphor.

  3. زينةُ الله التي أخرجها

    قد دعتْ زينة نفسي للبِراز

    God's adornment, which he brought forth,

    has summoned my soul's adornment to combat.

  4. زجرتُها همة عُلوية

    في وجوبٍ ومُحال وجَواز

    I restrained it with lofty resolve,

    in necessity, impossibility, and possibility.

  5. زينتي يسمعُ ما أسرده

    وإليه كان منه الانحياز

    My adornment hears what I recount,

    and the withdrawal from him was toward him.

  6. زينُ السوء كذا قال لنا

    لم يقل زينة للامتياز

    “The beauty of evil”—thus he said to us;

    he did not say “adornment,” to mark the distinction.

  7. زينتْ أسماؤه حضرتَه

    فالذي يحفظه بالعلمِ فاز

    His names adorned his presence;

    so whoever preserves it through knowledge has triumphed.

  8. زهرةُ الروضِ شذاها عنبر

    فالذي استنشقها فاز وحاز

    The garden's flower—its fragrance is ambergris;

    so whoever inhales it has triumphed and gained.

  9. زهرةٌ في فُلكٍ سابحةٍ

    من يراها هام فيها ثم جاز

    A flower in a floating ship;

    whoever sees it is enamored of it, then passes on.

  10. زينبُ تعرفُ والله الذي

    قلته في كلِّ سهلٍ وعَزاز

    Zaynab knows, by God, what

    I have said on every plain and stretch of hard ground.