1. They said, "If you wished, you could have turned away from her."
So I said to them, "Indeed, I do not wish to."
١. وَقالوا لَو تَشاءُ سَلَوتَ عَنها
فَقُلتَ لَهُم فَإِنّي لا أَشاءُ
2. How could I, when love for her clings to my heart
As a bucket clings to the pulley rope of a well?
٢. وَكَيفَ وَحُبُّها عَلِقٌ بِقَلبي
كَما عَلِقَت بِأَرشِيَةٍ دِلاءُ
3. For her there is a love that grew in my heart
So it has no end, even if chastised.
٣. لَها حُبٌّ تَنَشَّأَ في فُؤادي
فَلَيسَ لَهُ وَإِن زُجِرَ اِنتِهاءُ
4. And a blamer cuts me with rebuke,
Yet in the rebukes of blamers is my affliction.
٤. وَعاذِلَةٍ تُقَطِّعُني مَلاماً
وَفي زَجرِ العَواذِلِ لي بَلاءُ