1. شفَّ قلبي دلالهُ

    من شفائي وصالهُ

    His coquetry has worn my heart thin;

    union with him is part of my cure.

  2. وغرامي بخالهِ

    جلَّ عمَّا يخالهُ

    And my passion for his mole

    surpasses what he imagines.

  3. فارسيٌّ نجادهُ

    يوسفيٌّ جمالهُ

    His sword-belt is Persian;

    his beauty is Joseph-like.

  4. مالَ عني كميلِ

    عطفيهِ حتَّى خيالهُ

    Away from me turned, like the sway of

    his flanks, even his phantom.

  5. إن زعمتم أن الهوى

    ليس تصمي نبالهُ

    If you claim that love

    does not kill with its arrows,

  6. فمنامي من غالهُ

    وهدوّي ما بالهُ

    then my sleep—who has stolen it?

    And my calm—what ails it?

  7. يا ملولاً ما شأنهُ

    عند قلبي ملالهُ

    O fickle one, what does it matter

    to my heart, his weariness?

  8. إنّ من أنت شغلهُ

    لا تسل كيف حالهُ

    Indeed, he whose preoccupation you are—

    do not ask how he fares.

  9. وعذولي فيهِ وأضي

    عُ شيء مقالهُ

    And my reproacher over him—the most

    futile thing is his speech.

  10. خلِّ قلبي وحبَّهُ

    فهداهُ ضلالهُ

    Leave my heart and its love alone;

    for its guidance is its straying.

  11. ورضاهُ وسلوتي

    عنهُ ما لا أنالهُ

    And his favor, and my forgetting

    him, are what I cannot attain.

  12. فمماتي إعراضهُ

    وحياتي إقبالهُ

    For my death is his turning away,

    and my life is his turning toward me.