أَلا والنَّسيم سَحَر

مَتى جزتَ بالأثل والبان

Oh gentle breeze of dawn

When will you pass by the sweet smelling shrubbery and thickets

وَهاتِ ما مَعكَ من خبر

فَقَد بانَ لي منكَ ما بان

And bring me news

For I now see in you what I see

وَسِرَّك بعَرفك ظهر

وَهيَّج تباريحَ الأَشجان

Your fragrance has spread through recognition

And stirred the passions of yearning

وإلّا فَما ذا الخفَر

ومن علَّمك سَحب الأَردان

Else what is this vigil

And who taught you to pull the curtains

خبايا المحبَّة تلوح

وَكَم للهَوى من أَشائِر

The secrets of love are revealed

And passion has many tokens

وعَرف المحبَّة يَفوح

وريّاه في الكون سائر

The scent of love overflows

Its pasture everywhere

وَما كُلُّ عاشق يَبوح

وَلكنَّما الحال ظاهر

Not every lover confides

But the state is obvious

وخِلّي إذا ما خطر

تَهافَت عليه أَغصُنُ البان

And if an idea occurs to him

The branches of shrubbery fall upon him

مَتى وَا ليالي الوصال

تَعودي بتلكَ الحبائب

When will the nights of union return

With those beloved ones

فَما لي من الشوق حال

وَقَلبي من الوَجدِ ذائب

I have no respite from longing

And my heart is melting from rapture

ولا وَالنَبي ما اِستحال

ودادي ولو كُنتُ غائب

By the Prophet, it cannot change

My love, even if I were absent

فليت الَّذي لي هجر

رأَى ما بِقَلبي من أَحزان

If only he who abandoned me

Could see the sorrows in my heart