1. دع العيس في طيّ الفلا تبلغ المدى

    فقد ألهمت أن المسير على هدى

    Let the pale camels fold up the desert and reach their goal;

    for they have been inspired to know that their journey follows true guidance.

  2. لقد غَنِيَتْ بالقصد عن جاذب السرى

    كما شفعت بالشوق عن سائق الحدا

    Indeed, their purpose has spared them anyone to draw them onward by night,

    just as longing has interceded for them, sparing them the chanting driver.

  3. سرت فرأت طيب المعرّس في السرى

    وعدّت ظما التأويب في الخمس موردا

    They traveled by night and found in night travel the sweetness of a resting-place,

    and deemed the thirst of daylong travel through the five-day watering cycle a watering-place.

  4. أعدّ لها في قبضها بأناملي

    يداً كلما ألقت إلى يثربٍ يدا

    I count for them, while grasping them with my fingertips,

    a favor whenever they stretch a foreleg toward Yathrib.

  5. ولم أر في الأيام يوماً مباركاً

    عليّ كيوم زرت فيه محمدا

    And among all days I have never seen a day as blessed

    for me as the day on which I visited Muhammad.