وَعاشِقَينِ التَفَّ خَدّاهُما

عِندَ التِثامِ الحَجَرِ الأَسوَدِ

And two lovers whose cheeks pressed together,

At the moment of kissing the Black Stone;

فَاشتَفِيا مِن غَيرِ أَن يَأثَما

كَأَنَّما كانا عَلى مَوعِدِ

They quenched their longing without finding sin,

As though they had arrived for a rendezvous.

لَولا دِفاعُ الناسِ إِيّاهُما

لَما استَفاقا آخَرَ المُسنَدِ

Were it not for the crowd jostling against them,

They would not have come to their senses until the end of time.

ظِلنا كِلانا ساتِرٌ وَجهَهُ

مِمّا يَلي جانِبَهُ بِاليَدِ

We remained, each of us concealing our face

With a hand shielding the side exposed to view,

نَفعَلُ في المَسجِدِ ما لَم يَكُن

يَفعَلُهُ الأَبرارُ في المَسجِدِ

Doing within the Mosque what is never

Done by the righteous within the Mosque.