1. أنا ثوبٌ أُجْتَلى

    كجَهامِ السُّحُبِ

    I am a garment on display,

    like rainless clouds.

  2. أفُقي سَماؤهُ

    كُلِّلَتْ بالشُّهُبِ

    The sky of my horizon

    has been crowned with shooting stars.

  3. ومن التِّبْرِ سَنا

    برْقِه المُلْتَهِبِ

    And from gold comes the radiance

    of its blazing lightning.

  4. ورُقومِي زهَرٌ

    إثْرَ غيْثٍ صيّبِ

    And my patterns are flowers

    after a drenching rain.

  5. إنما حاشيَتي

    فوقَ قُضْبِ الذّهَبِ

    My border is nothing but—

    above the boughs of gold—

  6. نَوْرُ روْضٍ قد بَدا

    بأعالي القُضُبِ

    a garden's bloom that has appeared

    at the tips of the boughs.

  7. يوسُفٌ أبْدَعَ لي

    كُلَّ وصْفٍ مُعْجِبِ

    Yusuf has created for me

    every wondrous quality—

  8. ناصِرُ الدّينِ الذي

    لمْ يدعْ منْ مطْلَبِ

    Nasir al-Din, who

    has left no wish unfulfilled.