1. أسدت إليك يد الزمان صنيعاً

    روضاً غدا بالغاديات مريعا

    The hand of time has bestowed a kindness upon you:

    a garden made lush by morning rains.

  2. فاشكر مداولة الزمان فإنها

    قد أوصلتك من الشهور ربيعا

    So give thanks for time's turning, for it

    has brought you, among the months, to Rabi‘.

  3. وابهج بشهر قد سعدت به تكن

    للبان ثدى المعلوات رضيعا

    And rejoice in a month that has blessed you; you will be

    a suckling fed on milk from the breast of noble deeds.

  4. شهر به طلعت شموس الدين في

    برج السعود على الكمال طلوعا

    A month in which the suns of faith rose in

    the constellation of good fortune, rising in full perfection.

  5. رفعت لخير الخلق فيه رايةٌ

    أضحى بها عز الوجود منيعا

    In it a banner was raised for the best of creation,

    through which the glory of existence became unassailable.

  6. شهر بيمن المصطفى والمجتبى

    قد طاب مورده ولذّ شروعا

    A month, through the blessing of the Chosen and the Elect,

    has a sweet watering place, delightful to enter for a drink.

  7. يا حُسنَهُ بين الشهور لقد حوى

    قدراً على كل الشهور رفيعا

    How beautiful it is among the months! It has indeed attained

    a rank exalted above all the months.

  8. لم لا وفيه ليلةُ نبوية

    بجمالها ظل الزمان بديعا

    Why not, when it holds a night of the Prophet,

    through whose beauty time remains wondrous?

  9. يا طالباً للربح فيه لا تنم

    هذا أوان أن تسح دموعا

    O seeker of gain in it, do not sleep;

    this is the time to pour forth tears.

  10. فيها بأحمد كن له متشفعاً

    وكفى بأحمد في الذنوب شفيعا

    That night, seek intercession with Him through Ahmad,

    and Ahmad suffices as an intercessor for sins.

  11. وأطل بباب الفضل فيها وقفة

    واقطع خضوعاً ليلها وخشوعا

    And prolong your vigil at the gate of grace that night,

    and spend its night in submission and reverence.

  12. يا حرّ ما بين الجوانح من لظى

    لهب عليه قد طويتُ ضلوعا

    Oh, the heat of the blaze between my ribs!

    A flame around which I have folded my ribs.

  13. أسفى على أيام عمر قد مضت

    حسراتُها تدع الفؤاد صريعا

    My sorrow for the days of life that have passed!

    Regrets for them leave the heart laid low.

  14. فلأسكبنّ عليه وبلَ مدامع

    وأضرج الخدين فيه نجيعا

    So I shall surely pour over it a downpour of tears,

    and stain both cheeks with fresh blood for it.

  15. يا ورقُ طارحنَ الشجون أخاجوى

    بفناء مغنى الحزن بات صريعا

    O gray doves, share your sorrows with a brother in anguish,

    who lay all night stricken in the courtyard of sorrow's dwelling.

  16. لم تبقِ منه شجونه إلا ذماً

    أضحى سميعاً للضنا ومطيعا

    His sorrows have left of him only a remnant of life,

    now attentive and obedient to wasting sickness.

  17. أتُرى الليالى هل تجود برجعة

    هيهات لا أرجو لذاك رجوعا

    I wonder: will the nights grant a return?

    Impossible! I have no hope of its return.

  18. لكن على ما كان منى لم أزل

    أرجو إليه أوبة ونزوعا

    Yet, despite what has come from me, I have never ceased

    to hope for a return to Him and a turning toward Him.

  19. وبحب أحمد أرتجى نيل المنى

    وبمن له في التُرب حلّ ضجيعا

    And through love of Ahmad I hope to attain my desires,

    and through him who came to lie beside him in the dust.

  20. حادى الرفاق لأرض طيبة كن إذا

    جئت العقيق لما أكنُ مذيعا

    Be, O camel-driver of the company to Tayba's land, when

    you reach al-‘Aqiq, a herald of what I conceal.

  21. خبرهم أنى لوقع نواهُمُ

    ما زلت مصدوع الفؤاد مروعا

    Tell them that, at the blow of their departure,

    I have remained brokenhearted and dismayed.

  22. فعلى العقيق تحيةُ من ذى جوى

    يغنى ضناً وصبابة وولوعا

    So upon al-‘Aqiq be a greeting from one burning with longing,

    who sings of lovesickness, yearning, and ardent devotion.