برز السر مِن خفايا الغُيوب

فَتلقته نيرات القُلوب

The secret emerged from the unseen's obscurities

So hearts' lights received it wholeheartedly

بان عَن ستره الرَقيق وَلَكن

قَد تَوارى عَن أكمه مَحجوب

It uncovered from its subtle veil, but still

It remained obscured from the blind's stumblings

بَدر تَم تضاءل البَدر مِنهُ

فَهَوى عندَ ذكره لِلغُروب

A full moon - the full moon dimmed in its light

So it fell at the mention of it to setting

بَلغ العَرش نوره فَتلالا

مِن سَنا ضوئه ظَلام الجنوب

Its light reached the throne, so it shone

With the brightness of its glow, southern darkness

بَحر علم تَفجر العلم مِنهُ

فَرَوى مِن زلاله المَسكوب

An ocean of knowledge - knowledge burst from it

So its pouring's fresh water gave to drink

بِأَبي سَيداً لَهُ في المَعالي

خَير بيت عَلى التُقى مَضروب

By my father! A master for him in sublimities

The best house on piety ever built

بت مِن شدة الغَرام عَلَيه

بِفُؤاد مِن الهَوى مسلوب

I've become infatuated with passionate love for him

With a heart robbed of yearning by love's agony

بِجمال عشقته لَو تَبَدى

لزليخا ضلت عَن اليعقوبي

In his beauty I fell in love - if it appeared

Certainly Layla would lose Yaqub from her eye

بادر القَلب يا حَبيبي بِطَيف

في مَنامي فَإنَّهُ مَطلوبي

Come, O heart, my beloved, with your apparition in my dream

For you are the one I seek

باد صَبري عَن اللقا فَفُؤادي

في احتراق وَمُهجَتي في كروب

My patience has vanished from seeing you, so my heart

Is in flames and my inner essence in anguish