هَل مُخبِرٌ يا لَمعَةَ البارِقِ

هَل مُخبِرٌ يا لَمعَةَ البارِقِ

عن جِيرةٍ حَلُّوا على بارقِ

عن جِيرةٍ حَلُّوا على بارقِ

Is there a bearer of news, O flash of lightning,

O gleam of lightning, does any herald

of neighbors who settled at Bariq?

Report neighbors who alighted at the flash?

وَيا نَسيمَ البانِ هَل نَفحَةٌ

وَيا نَسيمَ البانِ هَل نَفحَةٌ

من نَحوهِمُ تُهدَى إِلى عَاشِقِ

من نَحوهِمُ تُهدَى إِلى عَاشِقِ

And O breeze of the moringa trees, is there a waft

O breeze of the wild, is there any whiff

from their direction, sent as a gift to a lover?

Blown from them to a longing lover?

إِن حَمَّلوا رِيحَ الصَّبا نَشرَهُم

إِن حَمَّلوا رِيحَ الصَّبا نَشرَهُم

فَيَا لِنَشرٍ منُهمُ عابِقِ

فَيَا لِنَشرٍ منُهمُ عابِقِ

If they have laden the east wind with their fragrance,

If they have laden the zephyr with their traces,

then ah, what a heady fragrance from them!

Then welcome such fragrance from them;

أَو أَرسلُوا طَيفَهُمُ طارِقاً

أَو أَرسلُوا طَيفَهُمُ طارِقاً

فَمَرحباً بالزَّائرِ الطَّارقِ

فَمَرحباً بالزَّائرِ الطَّارقِ

Or if they send their dream-vision as a night visitor,

Or sent their specter moving through the night,

then welcome to the visitor who comes by night!

Then greetings to the visitor in the dark;

وُجوهُهُم تَهدي بِأَنوارها

وُجوهُهُم تَهدي بِأَنوارها

إذا بدَت في ظُلمةِ الغاسِقِ

إذا بدَت في ظُلمةِ الغاسِقِ

Their faces guide with their radiance

Their faces give light with their rays

when they appear in the darkness of night.

When they appear in the gloom of nightfall;

مَنزلهُم قَلبي وفي الطَّرفِ قَد

مَنزلهُم قَلبي وفي الطَّرفِ قَد

حَلُّوا على مَشرَعهِ الدَّافقِ

حَلُّوا على مَشرَعهِ الدَّافقِ

Their dwelling is my heart, and in my eye they have already

My heart is their dwelling, and lo, in my eyes

settled at its gushing watering place.

They have alighted on its overflowing porch.