نورٌ تجسمَ لا شمسٌ ولا قمرٌ

نورٌ تجسمَ لا شمسٌ ولا قمرٌ

لكنَّه بشرٌ ما مثلهُ بشَرُ

لكنَّه بشرٌ ما مثلهُ بشَرُ

Light embodied—neither sun nor moon.

A light embodied, not sun nor moon

Yet he is human; no human is like him.

But a human, peerless among men

لَو كانَ كالشمسِ مبذولاً للاحظه

لَو كانَ كالشمسِ مبذولاً للاحظه

لتحلهُ بالنقا للأعين النظرُ

لتحلهُ بالنقا للأعين النظرُ

Were he, like the sun, freely available to his beholder,

Had he shone like the sun, eyes would feast

the gaze would [unclear verb] him at the sand ridge, for the eyes.

Dazzled, not a glance his way they'd send

للمعه نظرٌ ما زال يطلبُهُ

للمعه نظرٌ ما زال يطلبُهُ

منّي فإن لم يعُد لم يرجعِ البصرُ

منّي فإن لم يعُد لم يرجعِ البصرُ

For his gleam there is a gaze that never ceases to seek it,

My eyes still seek him though gone from sight

from me; and if it does not return, my sight will not return.

If he returns not, vision they'll rescind

له مِن العينِ حسنٌ ليسَ يشبهُهُ

له مِن العينِ حسنٌ ليسَ يشبهُهُ

شيءٌ وللعينِ منه الدمعُ والسَّهرُ

شيءٌ وللعينِ منه الدمعُ والسَّهرُ

From the eye he has a beauty unlike

His beauty no eye has glimpsed before

anything; and from him the eye has tears and sleeplessness.

To eyes he brings tears and sleepless nights