1. ظلامُ الليلِ معتبر

    لعبدٍ عندَه يقظهْ

    The darkness of night is a lesson

    for a servant who is awake.

  2. ظنوني في منازلها

    علومَ الخلقِ والحفَظه

    My conjectures, in their stations,

    are the knowledge of creatures and the guardians.

  3. ظلومٌ ليس يجهلها

    إمامق قبلَه حفظه

    A great wrongdoer is not ignorant of them;

    an imam [uncertain reading] preserved it before him.

  4. ظبا لما حللت به

    رأيت الحجبَ في اليقظه

    Sword-edges—when I alighted there,

    I saw the veils in wakefulness.

  5. ظباءُ كلها شمسٌ

    إذا علمت بمن حفظه

    Gazelles, every one a sun,

    if you knew who had guarded him.

  6. ظَللتُ به فأرّقني

    فلما كنتُ هو لفظه

    I remained with him, and he kept me sleepless.

    Then, when I was he, he uttered it.

  7. ظَننتُ الأمر يشهدني

    ويشهدني فما حفظه

    I thought the matter bore witness to me,

    and bore witness to me, yet he did not preserve it.

  8. ظنونٌ ما حصلتُ بها

    على ما قال من وعظه

    Conjectures—through them I did not arrive

    at what the one who admonished him had said.

  9. ظُبى سيفِ القضاءِ أتى

    إلى المغرورِ كي يعظه

    The edges of the sword of decree came

    to the deluded one, to admonish him.

  10. ظنينُ القلبِ متَّهمُ

    نؤومٌ قلبُه يقظه

    Suspect at heart, accused—

    a heavy sleeper whose heart is awake.