1. البرقُ يمان

    يلويه سرُّ أمان

    The lightning is Yemeni;

    a secret of safety bends it.

  2. يجلى بمثان

    للقلب منها ثان

    It is unveiled in pairs;

    the heart has a second from them.

  3. كم سودِ عيون

    جاءت له بعيون

    How many dark eyes

    came to it with springs,

  4. تذري يمان

    حكين حكم بيان

    scattering Yemeni [lightning],

    recounting eloquence’s maxims.

  5. يا سرَّ عيان

    كم راع من أعيان

    O secret of direct vision,

    how many notables it has awed!

  6. حيا لمعان

    تفترُّ عن لمعان

    Rain for a sufferer,

    you smile, revealing radiance.

  7. أدرك لجنان

    لم يشتغل بجنان

    Come to the aid of a heart

    that has not busied itself with heavenly gardens.

  8. فالجسم كفان

    في طيَّتي أكفان

    For the body is like one perishing,

    within the two folds of shrouds.

  9. إلحظ لمعان

    لولاك مضنى عان

    Look upon a sufferer—

    but for you, a wasted captive.

  10. وامنن بأمان

    ينجاب عن إيمان

    And bestow safety

    that parts to reveal faith.

  11. يسقي بورود

    طلُّ الحيا لورود

    With its coming, it gives drink—

    the dew of rain—to roses.

  12. في رحبك بان

    لها الجمال مباني

    In your spacious court are bān trees;

    their dwellings are beauty.

  13. ما أنَّ غريب

    والطورُ منه غريب

    No stranger has groaned,

    and the Mount is a stranger to him.

  14. فانٍ بكَ ثانٍ

    يا روحهُ عن ثاني

    Annihilated in you, turning away—

    O his soul—from another.