and in the spacious meadow beneath its canopy of sky (1),
where her dewy blossoms laugh with the light of the sun (2);
and in the limpid, shimmering pool when it mirrors all around it,
the wind having rippled its face like the surface of a rasp (3);
in pastime, in celebrations, and in the heedlessness
that lets those sundered from their loved ones attain every wish;
when the drinkers grow exhilarated in every gathering (4),
a glad scene adorned with tiers of assorted, well-arranged fruits (5);
when people come together for every Friday or festival,
displaying freshly renewed finery in proud array;
in the flash of Mashrafī swords amid the fray,
and in the supple, swaying shafts of spears (6);
in the pure-bred A‘wajī steeds when they surge forth,
outpacing the very escort of the wind in every headlong dash.

The celestial manifestations (7):
in the sun, dwelling in its tower of radiance (8),
holding beside the eastern horizon a mirror of burnished gold;
in the full moon, the moon of the horizon on the night of its perfection,
which the sky unveils like a palace of polished crystal;
in the stars that bedeck its darkness, as though
a scattering of pearls upon an emerald carpet;
in the rain that slakes the earth after its languor—
a mutehim (torrent-laden) cloud following a munjid (light) one (9);
in the lightning that shows itself, faint within its cloud (10),
like a smiling mouth or an unsheathed sword (11).

The immaterial manifestations (12):

Then he said: