تَقَبَّلِ المُهرَ مِن أَخي ثِقَةٍ

أَرسَلَ ريحاً بِهِ إِلى مَطَرِ

Accept the gift from my trusted brother

Who sent a breeze with it to the rain

مُشتَمِلاً بِالظَلامِ مِن شِيَةٍ

لَم يَشتَمِل لَيلُها عَلى سَحَرِ

Enveloped in the darkness of modesty

Its night did not contain any magic

مُنتَسِباً لَونُهُ وَغُرَّتُهُ

إِلى سَوادِ الفُؤادِ وَالبَصَرِ

Its color and radiance attributed

To the darkness of my heart and eyesight

تَحسِبُهُ مِن عُلاكَ مُستَرِقاً

بَهجَةَ مَرأى وَحُسنَ مُختَبَرِ

You'd think it stole from your beauty

The joy of seeing and trying beauty

حَنَّ إِلى راحَةٍ تَفيضُ نَدىً

فَمالَ ظِلٌّ بِهِ عَلى نَهرِ

It inclined towards a rest that overflows with dew

So a shadow leaned over a river through it

تَرى بِهِ وَالنَشاطُ يُلهِبُهُ

ماشِئتَ مِن فَحمَةٍ وَمِن شَرَرِ

You see in it, and vitality ignites it

Whatever you wish of embers and sparks

لَو حَمَلَ اللَيلُ حُسنَ دُهمَتِهِ

أَمتَعَ طَرفَ المُحِبِّ بِالسَهَرِ

If the night carried the beauty of its darkness

It would entertain the lover's gaze and insomnia

أَحمى مِنَ النَجمِ يَومَ مَعرَكَةٍ

ظَهراً وَأَجرى بِهِ مِنَ القَدَرِ

Hotter than a star on the day of battle

A back that makes fate run its course

اِسوَدَّ وَاِبيَضَّ فِعلُهُ كَرَماً

فَاِلتَفَتَ الحُسنُ فيهِ عَن حَوَرِ

It blackened and whitened, its action nobly

So beauty in it averted from nymphs

كَأَنَّهُ وَالنُفوسُ تَعشَقُهُ

مُرَكَّبٌ مِن مَحاسِنِ الصُوَرِ

It's as if it and souls are in love with it

Composed of the beauties of forms

فَاِزدَد سَنا بَهجَةٍ بِدُهمَتِهِ

فَاللَيلُ أَذكى لِغُرَّةِ القَمَرِ

So its darkness increased in splendor

For the night is more eloquent than the moon's radiance

وَمِثلُ شُكري عَلى تَقَبَّلِهِ

يَجمَعُ بَينَ النَسيمِ وَالزَهرِ

And my gratitude for accepting it

Combines the breeze and the flower