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  • The whole night until dawn that exalted King is Himself uttering an ‘Alast’ (‘Am not I...?’) and (answering) ‘Yea.’ 2300
  • Where is anyone to say’ Yea’? The flood of (slumber) has swept them all away, or a leviathan has swallowed them all piecemeal.
  • At morning tide, when He draws His sheeny sword from the scabbard of the darkness of night,
  • And the orient sun rolls up (makes an end of) night, this leviathan spews out all that it swallowed,
  • And we, delivered like Jonah from the belly of that leviathan, are dispersed into (the world of) scent and colour.
  • Like Jonah, the people give praise (to God), because they were restful in that darkness. 2305
  • At the hour of dawn each one says, when he comes forth from the belly of the (great) Fish, Night,
  •  ‘O Gracious One who dost deposit in lonesome (fearful) Night the treasure of Mercy and all these delicious experiences!
  • By means of Night, which resembles the scaly leviathan, the eve (is made) keen, the ear fresh, and the body nimble.
  • Henceforth, with One like Thee (beside us), we will never flee from positions of fearful aspect.