1. أَعيسَ الحِجازِ حَملتِ امْكِراما

    وفُتِّ كئيباً يموت هياما

    O pale camels of the Hijaz, you carried the noble ones,

    and left behind a sorrowful man dying of love's frenzy.

  2. سَريتِ سريعاً لوجدٍ بجدٍّ

    فهاجَ امْغرامُ بقلبي امْضراما

    You journeyed swiftly by night, driven by longing, in earnest,

    so passion stirred the blaze within my heart.

  3. فَهلّا تَأنّيْتِ عَندَ امَّسيرِ

    لصبٍّ كساه امْبعادُ امْسقاما

    Why did you not take your time when setting out,

    for an ardent lover whom separation clothed in sickness?

  4. يئنُّ أنيناً يُلينُ امْصخورَ

    وَيُبكي عَلَيهِ امْأَنينُ امْحماما

    He moans a moan that softens rocks,

    and his moaning makes the doves weep for him.

  5. يَبيتُ يراعي امْنّجومَ وَقَد

    أَحَبَّ امْسّهاد وَعادى امَّناما

    He spends the night watching the stars, and has

    loved sleeplessness and made sleep his enemy.

  6. وَيَبكي دُموعاً تُحاكي امْدماءَ

    وتُخجلُ حين تسيلُ امْغماما

    And he weeps tears resembling blood,

    and they shame the clouds as they flow.

  7. يَرى امْسُّهدَ في امْحبِّ فَرضاً عَلَيه

    لِكَونِ امَّنام عَلَيهِ حَراما

    He regards sleeplessness in love as a duty upon him,

    since sleep is forbidden to him.

  8. وَلَيسَ لِلَيليَ صُبحٌ يَلوحُ

    فَهَل أَقسَمَ امْصّبحُ أَن لا يُشاما

    And my night has no dawn that gleams;

    so has dawn sworn never to be seen?

  9. وَكانَ امْصّباحُ يسلُّ على

    جُيوشِ امْظّلامِ امْزنوجِ حُساما

    And morning used to draw against

    the armies of darkness—black warriors—a keen sword.

  10. فَيا وَيحَ قَلبي ونارُ امْجَوى

    تَزيدُ اِلتِهاباً وَتنمو اِضطِراما

    So alas for my heart, as the fire of heartache

    burns ever hotter and grows more fiercely ablaze.

  11. يشبّ امْنَّوى بِفُؤادي امْهَوَى

    وَإِنّ امْنّوى لَيُثيرُ امْغَراما

    Separation kindles love within my heart,

    and separation surely stirs passion.

  12. أُوَجِّه وَجهِيَ مُستَقبِلاً

    نَسيمَ امْحِجازِ رَضيعَ امْخُزامى

    I turn my face to welcome

    the breeze of the Hijaz, lavender's nursling.

  13. وما ليَ قصدٌ بغير امْحجازِ

    وَقَلبي إِلَيهِ يَميلُ وَهاما

    And I have no aim beyond the Hijaz,

    and my heart inclines toward it, lost in love.

  14. وَلَيسَت عُيوني تَرى غَيرَهُ

    وَإِنّيَ عَن غَيرِهِ أَتعامى

    And my eyes see nothing but it,

    and indeed I feign blindness to everything else.

  15. تَشَوَّفتُ دَوماً إِلى بَرقِهِ

    لِيَهديَ لامْصَبِّ مِنهُ اِبتِساما

    I have always gazed eagerly toward its lightning,

    so it might give the lovesick lover a smile of its own.

  16. فَأَيّتُها امْعيسُ بُلِّغتِ قَصداً

    ونِلتِ بأرضِ امْحجازِ مُقاما

    So, pale camels, may you be brought to your goal,

    and attain a dwelling in the land of the Hijaz.

  17. فَسيري بجدٍّ إلى طيبةٍ

    وحُطّي بها وانصبنَّ امْخياما

    So journey earnestly to Taybah,

    and alight there, and pitch the tents.

  18. فَفيها امْرّسولُ نَبيُّ امْهُدى

    كَريمُ امْنّجار بِمَجدٍ تسامى

    For there is the Messenger, the prophet of guidance,

    noble in lineage, exalted in glory.

  19. شَفيعُ امْذنوبِ وَطَبُّ امقلوبِ

    فَعَنها وَمِنها أَزاحَ امْسّقاما

    Intercessor for sins and physician of hearts,

    he thus drove sickness away from them and out of them.

  20. حَبيبُ امْجليلِ وَخَيرُ خليلٍ

    وَأَعلى دَليلٍ بِهِ امْحقُّ قاما

    Beloved of the Majestic One and best of intimate friends,

    and the loftiest guide, through whom truth stood firm.

  21. أَزالَ امْضّلالَ بِصُبحِ امْهُدى

    وَإِنّ امْضياءَ يُزيلُ امظلاما

    He dispelled error with the dawn of guidance,

    and light indeed dispels darkness.

  22. نَبيٌّ لَقَد سَخَّر اللَّه فَضلاً

    لِتَظليلهِ حَيثُ سارَ امْغَماما

    A prophet for whom God indeed graciously harnessed

    the clouds, to shade him wherever he went.

  23. نبيٌّ على امْأنبياءِ امْكرامِ

    تَقَدّمَ مِن حَيثُ صَلّى إِماما

    A prophet who, over the noble prophets,

    took precedence by praying as their imam.

  24. نَبِيٌّ لَقَد جاءَنا رَحمَةً

    مِنَ اللَّهِ ظَلَّت تعمُّ امْأناما

    A prophet who indeed came to us as a mercy

    from God, which has continued to embrace all humankind.

  25. نَبِيٌّ رَقى سِدْرةَ امُّنتهَى

    وَنالَ مِنَ امْفَخرِ ثمَّ مقاما

    A prophet who ascended to the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary,

    and there attained a station of glory.

  26. نَبيٌّ رأى ربَّه حل مجداً

    وَأَسمَعَهُ اللَّهُ منه امْكلاما

    A prophet who saw his Lord and dwelt in glory,

    and God made him hear His own speech.

  27. نبيٌّ له شُقَّ بدرُ امْسماءِ

    ومن بعدهِ عاد بدراً تماما

    A prophet for whom the full moon in the sky was split,

    and afterward it returned as a full moon, whole again.

  28. هوَ امُّصطفى خيرةُ اللَّه مَنْ

    أبان امْحلالَ لنا وامْحراما

    He is the Chosen One, God's elect, who

    made clear to us the lawful and the forbidden.

  29. هو امَّلجأُ امْحصينُ كهفُ امْوَرى

    هو امُّغيث في امْدهرِ غَوثُ امْيتامى

    He is the impregnable refuge, humankind's sheltering cave;

    he is the rescuer through the ages, the orphans' aid.

  30. فَحاشاهُ وَهوَ امُّشَفَّعُ أَنْ

    أُضاعَ لَدى امْحَشرِ أَو أَنْ أُضاما

    So far be it from him, whose intercession is accepted, that

    I should be lost at the Gathering or be wronged.

  31. فَصلِّ بِفَضل إِلاهي عَلَيه

    صلاةً تدوم وسلِّمْ سلاما

    So, my God, in Your bounty, bless him

    with lasting blessings, and grant him peace;

  32. وَبَعدُ على امْآلِ وامْصَحْبِ جَمعاً

    وَأَنعِمْ بِذاكَ علَيهم دَواما

    and then bless his family and companions, all together,

    and bestow that favor upon them unceasingly.

  33. وَزِدْ ذاكَ ما قد تغنّى امْحَمامُ

    ومن طيبةَ فاح نشرُ امْخُزامى

    And increase that as long as the doves sing,

    and lavender's fragrance wafts from Taybah,

  34. وما قامَ عَبدُ اللّطيفِ بِمَدحٍ

    يَصوغُ امْبلاغةَ فيهِ اِنتِظاما

    and as long as Abd al-Latif offers praise,

    fashioning eloquence within it in harmonious order.

  35. فَأَنعِمْ عَلَيهِ بِجاهِ امْرَسولِ

    وأحسِن إلاهيَ منك امْخِتاما

    So grant him favor through the Messenger's standing,

    and, my God, grant him a good ending from You.