1. يا لَيلَةً نامَها الخَلِيُّ مِنَ ال

    حُزنِ وَنَومي مُسَهَّدٌ أَرِقُ

    O night, slept through by one free of

    sorrow, while my sleep is sleepless and restless.

  2. أَرقُبُ نَجماً كَأَنَّ آخِرَهُ

    بَعدَ السِماكَينِ لُؤلُؤٌ نَسَقُ

    I watch the stars, as though the last of them,

    beyond the two Simāks, were pearls strung in a row.

  3. يا نُعمُ لا أُذلِفُ الصَديقَ وَلا

    يَطمَعُ فيَّ الوُشاةُ إِن نَطَقوا

    O Nuʿm, I do not drive a friend away, nor

    can slanderers hope to sway me if they speak.

  4. لا وَالَّذي أَحرَمَ العِبادُ لَهُ

    بِكُلِّ فَجٍّ مِن حِجَّةٍ رُفَقُ

    No, by Him for whom His servants enter pilgrim consecration,

    in pilgrimage bands through every mountain pass,

  5. وَالبُدنُ إِن نُزِّعَت أَجِلَّتُها

    بِالخَيفِ يَغشى نُحورَها العَلَقُ

    while the sacrificial camels, when their coverings are removed

    at al-Khayf, have their throats covered in clotted blood—

  6. ما باتَ عِندي سِرٌّ أُضَمَّنُهُ

    إِلّا وَفي الصَدرِ دونَهُ غَلَقُ

    no secret entrusted to me has ever stayed with me

    without a lock within my breast to guard it.