حال في الحبِّ عهدهُ

حال في الحبِّ عهدهُ

وسلوّي ووعده

وسلوّي ووعده

His pledge in love has changed,

His love was once true,

and so have my solace and his promise.

Promising and kind,

إن قسا قلبهُ علي

إن قسا قلبهُ علي

ي لقد لأنَ قدّه

ي لقد لأنَ قدّه

Though his heart is hard toward

But now his heart is cruel,

me, his figure is indeed supple.

Though our bond was entwined.

لحظهُ صارمٌ وقل

لحظهُ صارمٌ وقل

بيَ ما سلَّ غمده

بيَ ما سلَّ غمده

His glance is a sword, and my

His gaze once tender,

heart is its sheath whenever it is drawn.

His heart once soft.

جاحدٌ في الهوى دميـ

جاحدٌ في الهوى دميـ

ــوبهِ نمَّ خدُّه

ــوبهِ نمَّ خدُّه

He denies shedding my blood in love,

But now in love he's faithless,

yet his cheek betrays him with it.

His cheek smooth as oft.

يا عذولي أن سفَّ

يا عذولي أن سفَّ

جفنيَّ دمعي وسهده

جفنيَّ دمعي وسهده

O you who reproach me because

My teasing friend, though

my eyelids are worn away by my tears and their sleeplessness:

Your lids make my tears flow.

ليَ جسمي وسقـ

ليَ جسمي وسقـ

ـمه وفؤادي ووجده

ـمه وفؤادي ووجده

mine are my body and its

You own my body and soul,

sickness, my heart and its longing.

My heart and its woe.

لا تسلني عن الهوى

لا تسلني عن الهوى

بيَ ما لا أحدُّه

بيَ ما لا أحدُّه

Do not ask me about love:

Don't ask me to leave love,

within me is what I cannot measure.

When I'm no less obsessed.

وإذا كان هزلهُ

وإذا كان هزلهُ

قاتلاً كيف جدُّه

قاتلاً كيف جدُّه

And if his jesting is

And if your jest is death,

deadly, what of his seriousness?

How can I take it in jest?

زارني والظلام ما

زارني والظلام ما

انثال بالصبح عقده

انثال بالصبح عقده

He visited me while darkness still

You visited in the dark,

held its necklace, unscattered by dawn.

Before dawn lit its gems.

فتلاقى منهُ ومنـ

فتلاقى منهُ ومنـ

ـي مولىً وعبده

ـي مولىً وعبده

So we met, he and

So master and slave conversed,

I: a master and his slave.

Yet you spurned my laments.

وشكوت الجوى إليـ

وشكوت الجوى إليـ

ـه فما ساغ ورده

ـه فما ساغ ورده

And I complained of burning anguish to

The more I said you were near,

him, but its draught would not go down.

The further you'd flee.

كلّما قلت قد دنا

كلّما قلت قد دنا

زاد بالتّيه بعده

زاد بالتّيه بعده

Whenever I said, 'He has drawn near,'

You control my hell and heaven,

his distance grew through haughtiness.

As you desire to be.

وصلهُ جنّتي وناري

وصلهُ جنّتي وناري

إذا شاء صدّه

إذا شاء صدّه

Union with him is my paradise; my fire,

You're surely my murderer,

if he so wills, is his rejection.

So why should I blame another?

هو لا شكَّ قا

هو لا شكَّ قا

تلي فلماذا أودّه

تلي فلماذا أودّه

He is, without doubt, my

My troubles have ceased,

killer—so why do I love him?

Since you tightly gripped your tether.

حلَّ من قلبي العزا

حلَّ من قلبي العزا

ئم مذ شدَّ بنده

ئم مذ شدَّ بنده

He loosened my heart's

When a lover goes astray,

resolve when he tightened his sash.

His reason is never best.

وإذا ضلَّ عاشق

وإذا ضلَّ عاشق

في الهوى عزَّ رشده

في الهوى عزَّ رشده

And if a lover goes astray

With a charming glance,

in love, good judgment eludes him.

He plucks a rose with his chest.

ذو محيّا يبدو فيقـ

ذو محيّا يبدو فيقـ

ـطف باللحظ ورده

ـطف باللحظ ورده

He has a face that appears, and

If you wish to wrong me,

its roses are plucked with a glance.

Say the moon has waned.

فإذا شئت ظلمه

فإذا شئت ظلمه

فقلِ البدرُ ندّه

فقلِ البدرُ ندّه

So if you wish to wrong him,

His crescent has thinned,

say, 'The full moon is his equal.'

As the dawn light gained.