شَمسٌ تجلّت لنا من بين سجفينِ

تفوق شمسَ الضُحى منها بخدّينِ

A sun appeared to us from between two clouds

Exceeding the morning sun with two cheeks

تَحكي الدجى والضحى مِن نورِ غرّتها

وَمِن ذَوائِبها الغطشى بلونينِ

It tells of the darkness and daylight from the light of its appearance

And from its dangling tresses two colors

ليلٌ تَعَسعس داجيهِ على قمرٍ

عَلى قضيبٍ تثنّى فوق دعصينِ

A night whose darkness creeps on a moon

On a stick bent over two palm branches

كأنّما صدرها مِن حُسنِ بهجتهِ

بلّورة لُصِقت منها بحقّينِ

As if its chest from the beauty of its splendor

Is a crystal attached to it with two cheeks

تريكَ مِن ثغرِها المعسولِ إن بسمت

وَمِن نظامِ سموط الدرِّ درّينِ

It shows you from its sweet mouth if it smiles

And from the arrangement of the fallen pearls two pearls

جالَ الوشاحُ بها في الخصرِ واِحتكمت

فيها خَلاخِلها منها بساقينِ

The scarf wavered around her waist and her anklets clashed

Again her legs with two legs

تَسعى للسعِ قلوبِ المُبصرين لها

بِعَقربين لها من فوق صدغينِ

Their hearts eagerly seek her

With two scorpions over two temples

أَبدت لَنا وَجهها والشمسُ طالعة

في سعدِها فرأت عيناي شمسينِ

She revealed her face to us and the sun is rising

In its morning so my eyes saw two suns

وَقابلت في الدُجى بدر السماء فما

لمحت إلّا وقد أبصرت بدرينِ

And I faced the full moon in the darkness but

I saw nothing but that I saw two full moons

وَأَسفرت وضياءُ الصبحِ متّضحٌ

فَقلت قَد أزعج الداجي بصبحينِ

And the brightness of dawn cleared up

So I said the darkness is disturbed by two dawns

وَليلة زرتها هدواً وقد سفرت

مِن سجفها ومن الداجي بصبحينِ

And a night I visited calmly and its darkness

Receded from its cloud and from the darkness at dawn

فبتُّ بالوصلِ جذلاناً أصافحٌ أث

مارَ المحاسنِ منها بالبنانينِ

So I spent the night rejoicing, smiling, loving

As beauty passed from her with two eyes

أضمُّها وهيَ طوعاً ما تُدافِعُني

مِن حيثُ عانَقتُها إلّا بِنهدينِ

I hug her and she willfully does not defend herself against me

From where I embraced her except with two breasts

تديرُ لي من ثَناياها وقهوتها

كَأسين مُختلفين اللون عذبينِ

She turns to me from her folds and curves

Two differently colored cups, sweet

وَمبغض سيّء الأخلاقِ رؤيته

أَقلى وأثقلُ في قلبي من الدينِ

And I hate the ill-natured ugly sight of him

More heavy and burdensome in my heart than debt

قَد خامرت قلبَه الأضغانُ منه وقد

رانَ القلاء عليه أيّما رينِ

Suspicions have crept into his heart and

Hypocrisy showed upon him however much

يرينني البرّ والإخلاص ظاهرهُ

طَوراً ويمزجُ منه الصدق بالمينِ

He sometimes shows me righteousness and sincerity outwardly

And mixes honesty from him with cunning

يا مازجاً زينهُ بالشين كفَّ ودَع

ما أَنتَ مُبديهِ مِن زينٍ ومن شينِ

Oh you who adorns his beauty with disgrace, stop

What you show of beauty and ugliness

وفجوة تُهلك الركبان سالكها

يَدعو الإله اِبتهالاً خشية الحينِ

And a gap that destroys the travelers traversing it

Calls God desperately fearing the moment

يُعيي الدليل وينسيهِ مطالبهُ

أهوالها وَتريهِ الشخصَ شخصينِ

It tires the guide and makes him forget his demands

Its horrors and shows the person two people

جاوزتها بأمونِ الظهرِ إِن جدّت

لَم تَشتكي في مجدّ السيرِ من أينِ

I crossed it with tranquility of spirit if it became serious

If the glory of the journey did not complain where from

مُستقبلاً مَربعَ الزاكي فلاح وقد

أَيقنت أَنّي بهِ أَحظى بيسرينِ

Heading towards the blessed radiant square so I rejoiced

Having ascertained that through it I obtain ease

فَحين قابلته في الدستِ مبتدياً

كأنَّه البدرُ وافى بين سعدينِ

So when I faced it starting in the hand

It was as if it were the full moon having risen between two auspicious ones

طفقتُ أَسعى كأنّي كنت من فرحٍ

صافَحتُ وجهَ السما منّي بكفّينِ

I started to walk about as if from joy

I shook the face of the sky with both my hands

ما جاءَ يسألهُ عافيه عارفةً

إلّا وأعطاهُ فوقَ الضعف ضعفينِ

No one came asking him for wellbeing knowing

Except that he gave him double the double

متوّج لَم يَزل في الدست مكتسباً

مِنَ التُقى ومنَ الإجلال بردينِ

Crowned he continued gaining

From piety and veneration two profits

ما شامَ مزن نداه شايما أبداً

إلّا تضاعفَ منه النوّ نوّينِ

The light of his fame never met

A critic but his light multiplied twofold

يَرى الغيوبَ وما يجري القضاءُ بهِ

عَن ناظرِ العقلِ لا عَن ناظرِ العينِ

He sees the unseen and what destiny holds

Beyond the sight of the mind not the sight of the eye

بَحرٌ إِذا مدّ كفّيه لسائلهِ

عاينت للجودِ مِن كفّيه بحرينِ

A sea when he extends his palm to his asker

I saw in his palms for generosity two seas

سيف جلاهُ وأَبدى نور جوهرهِ

حكُّ التجاربِ لا حكّ من العينِ

A sword he unsheathed and revealed the light of its essence

The judgment of trials not the sight’s judgement

يا خيرَ مَن وخدت أيدي المطيِّ به

وَيا خير من لثم الدقعا بنعلينِ

O best of those the soft piercings were loyal to

And the best of those the banners kissed with two slippers

وَمَن يذودُ العدا أيضاً بصارمهِ ال

ماضي وَمِن عزمهِ الماضي بسيفينِ

And whoever wards off the enemies too with his

Strong decisive sword and his strength’s two swords

طالَ اِنتِظاري زماناً في مقامك يا

مَن محتذى رفدهِ يحظى برفدينِ

My waiting for you was long, O

One whose aid hopes for two aids

لَقَد مضى شهرُ شوّال وقعدته

فَما يكونُ اِنتظاري بعد شهرينِ

The month of Shawaal has passed and I waited it out

So what will be my waiting after two months?

وَلستُ أسألكُ الفسحان من مللٍ

لكن تقسّم فكري بين أمرينِ

And I do not ask you for vacations out of boredom

But my thoughts are divided between two matters

لَولا فراخ فيرجوني لما طلبت

نَفسي رحيلاً ولو جاوزت عامينِ

If not for the chickens that make me hope I would not

Have sought to travel even if two years passed