كَأَنَّ بِقَوْسِ النُّونِ تَحْتَ نِقابِها

هِلالاً بَدا لِلْفِطْرِ في غُرَّةِ الشَّهْرِ

As if beneath her veil a crescent moon

Appeared to creation on the feast's first night,

تَجاهَلَ خُبْراً ضَوْؤُهُ أَنَّ فَوْقَهُ

لما اسْتَحْسَنَتْهُ العَيْنُ غَيْماً عَلَى بَدْرِ

Its splendor put the full moon overhead to shame

When eyes admired it gleaming through the clouds upon the moon.