1. سَرى طَيفُها وَهناً فِلِلَّهِ ما أَهنا

    كَرىً فيهِ فُزنا بِاللَبانَةِ مِن لُبنى

    Her phantom came late at night—by God, how blissful

    A slumber in which we won our desire from Lubna!

  2. وَيا حَبَّذا ذاكَ الخَيالُ الَّذي سَرى

    إِلى المَسجِدِ الأَقصى مِنَ المَسجِدِ الأَدنى

    And O how welcome that apparition which journeyed by night

    To the Farthest Mosque from the nearer mosque!

  3. فَأَشهَدَنا بِالغَيبِ فيهِ حُضورُهُ

    وَغَيَّبَنا في حالِ مَشهَدِهِ عَنّا

    So its presence there made us witnesses in the unseen,

    And, as we beheld it, made us absent from ourselves.

  4. وَأَبدى لَنا مِن لُطفِ لِمياءَ صورَةً

    شَهِدنا بَها مِن حُسنِها ذَلِكَ المَعنى

    And revealed to us, from Lamya’s subtle grace, a form

    Through which we witnessed that meaning in her beauty.