1. أَلاحَ لَمّا لاحَ مِن حاجِرِ

    سَنا البَريقِ المُنجِدِ الغائِرِ

    It flashed when, from Hajir, there shone

    the radiance of lightning, ranging uplands and lowlands.

  2. جَرَّدَ في الأُفقِ حُساماً عَلى ال

    عارِضِ ذي الشِقشِقَةِ الهادِرِ

    It unsheathed a sword on the horizon against the

    roaring cloud with its bellowing throat-sac.

  3. يُشَبِّكُ العَشرَ عَلى قَلبِهِ ال

    واقِعِ في أَسرِ الهَوى الطائِرِ

    He interlaces his ten fingers over his heart,

    fallen, fluttering, into love's captivity.

  4. يَعجَبُ مِن بَلبالِهِ في الهَوى ال

    مَجنونِ مَجنونُ بَني عامِرِ

    Astonished by his turmoil in love—

    mad love—is Majnun of Banu Amir.

  5. مَن مُنصِفي مِن قادِرٍ راقِدٍ

    عَن طولِ ليلِ الساهِدِ الساهِرِ

    Who will do me justice against one powerful, yet slumbering,

    heedless of the long night of the sleepless, wakeful one?

  6. صاحَ لِطولِ اللَيلِ هَل مُؤمِنٌ

    بي مُنصِفٌ مِن كافِرٍ كافِرِ

    He cried as the night dragged on: “Is there a believer

    in me to do me justice against a faithless night,

  7. لا يَرحَمُ العاشِقَ مِمّا بِهِ

    وَلا يُبالي غَبَنَ الخاسِرِ

    which shows no mercy for the lover's suffering

    and cares nothing for the loser's unfair loss?”