ظلامُ الليلِ معتبر

لعبدٍ عندَه يقظهْ

The darkness of night is wise

For a servant with wakefulness

ظنوني في منازلها

علومَ الخلقِ والحفَظه

My speculations in their dwellings

Are the knowledge of creation and preservation

ظلومٌ ليس يجهلها

إمامق قبلَه حفظه

Unjust it is not to be ignorant of them

A leader before him preserved them

ظبا لما حللت به

رأيت الحجبَ في اليقظه

Regret what I arrived with

I saw the veils in wakefulness

ظباءُ كلها شمسٌ

إذا علمت بمن حفظه

Regrets are all a sun

When you know who preserved it

ظَللتُ به فأرّقني

فلما كنتُ هو لفظه

I shaded with it so it deprived me of sleep

When I was it is his utterance

ظَننتُ الأمر يشهدني

ويشهدني فما حفظه

I thought the matter bears witness to me

And bears witness to me yet did not preserve it

ظنونٌ ما حصلتُ بها

على ما قال من وعظه

Speculations I did not obtain with them

What he said of his preaching

ظُبى سيفِ القضاءِ أتى

إلى المغرورِ كي يعظه

The sword of destiny came

To the heedless one so as to preach to him

ظنينُ القلبِ متَّهمُ

نؤومٌ قلبُه يقظه

Suspicions of the heart are accusing

A heart with wakefulness is sad