ياليل ياليل الهوى والرؤى
يا ملتقى الفن ! وديوانه
O night, O night of love and visions
O meeting place of art! And its divan
ويا شعاع السحر ، يا نبعه
ومشعل الفكر ، وريانه
And O ray of magic, O its spring
And the torch of thought, and its flames
يا نافث الفتنة ، رفافة
وعبقر الشعر ، ودهقانه
O kindler of sedition, gently
And genius of poetry, and its ecstasy
تلقن المطرب الحانه
وتلهم الشاعر أوزانه
You teach the singer his melodies
And inspire the poet his rhythms
رداؤك الاسود ملق على
الدنيا رؤى الحسن و افنانه
Your black cloak laid upon
The world, the visions of beauty and its idols
ياليل يا قائد جيش الدجى
یا بطلا خلد فرسانه
O night, O leader of the army of darkness
O hero whose knights are immortalized
ومعجزا ينهض ما حاولت
افهام حسادك ، نكرانه
And miracle that arises what your
Enviers' minds attempted, to deny it
واية لله فيها يد ...
بيضاء ... جل الله سبحانه
And a sign of God in it is a hand...
White... God glorified His praise
ويا حليما ، جاعلا سیفه
اخلاقه العز ، وايمانه
And O forbearing one, making his sword
His morals the honor, and his faith
يافا تكامل على قوة
ضراوة الفتك و نشدانه
O Jaffa perfected in the strength
Of the ferocity of murder and its intensity
وراعيا اضنکه سهده
فناء ، ما يحفل قطعانه
And guardian narrowed its plateau
Of demise, not caring for its cattle
في صمتك المرهوب ، في سطوه
ما أخمل البحر ... وشطانه
In your revered silence, in its tyranny
That the sea does not overlook... and its banks
خالك (معنى الشر) أو (رمزه)
(مانی) فاستنفر اعوانه
Get rid of (the meaning of evil) or (its symbol)
(Doubt) so mobilize its aides
ياليل هل يعقل منك الورى
نكرانك العيش ، وهجرانه
O night, can the creatures deny
You life, and abandon you
كلا ، فهذا عالم جاحد
مدينه يمطل دیانه
No, for this is an ungrateful world
A city that delays its judgement
ياليل هذا عالم ثائر
واثب فيه انسه جانه
O night, this is a rebellious world
In it, man awoke his devil
ياليل هذا عالم اهوج
بیدقه طاول فرزانه
O night, this is a confused world
In it, the rational pounded its drums
ياليل هذا عالم سادر
رشیده صاحب غيانه
O night, this is an arrogant world
Its guide the owner of madness
ضعيفه مفترس جهرة
حاكت يد القوة اكفانه
Weak predator publicly
The hand of power knitted its shrouds
ياليل غشياننا عالما
كاسيه لا يرحم عريانه
O night, a world has covered us
Wearing no mercy for the bare
عالمنا ، ياليل ذوقوة
راويه ، ما يعبأ ظمآنه
Our world, O night, with brutal
Eloquence, not caring for its thirsty
ياليل من نامن فى عالم
شبعانه ، سخر جوعانه
O night, those who slept in a world
Satiated, ridiculed its hungry
ان طلب الحق به فاضل
هد عرام الظلم بنيانه
If the truth is sought in it virtuously
It would destroy the pillars of injustice
او طامن الحر به نفسه
أباح للطاغين اهوانه
Or if the free man risks himself
It permits the tyrant to humiliate him
والأعزل المدلج نهب العنا
فيه ، وان سالم عقبانه
And the helpless armed looted the disgrace
In it, even if its eagles are safe
ياليل لا ، فالدین فوق الحجى
فليعلن الثائر اذعانه
O night, no, for religion is above reasoning
So let the rebel declare his submission
بصيرة الدين، وهل غيرها
رد على الحائر ايقانه
The insight of religion, and what else
Returned the lost his certainty
تقودنا للخير في حكمه
تروى لهيف القلب حرانه
It guides us to goodness in its wisdom
It narrates to the flaming heart its burden
جل علا الله وقرت به
ضمائر، تلهم عرفانه
Supreme is God and hearts settled in Him
Consciences, that inspire its knowledge
فتؤثر الخير على ضده
وتستميح الله غفرانه
So it prefers good over its opposite
And seeks God’s forgiveness and pardon
