أَلا قُل لِذاتِ الخالِ عَنّي إِنَّني

أَلا قُل لِذاتِ الخالِ عَنّي إِنَّني

لَأَرغَبُ عَن خالٍ تَطَلَّعَ في خَدِّ

لَأَرغَبُ عَن خالٍ تَطَلَّعَ في خَدِّ

Ah, tell the woman with the beauty spot, on my behalf, that I

Tell the beauty mark on the cheek from me that I

Indeed turn away from a beauty spot that has appeared on a cheek.

Prefer a mole that peeks from a cheek

وَزَهَّدَني في ذَلِكَ الخالِ نِسبَةٌ

وَزَهَّدَني في ذَلِكَ الخالِ نِسبَةٌ

أَراها بِخالِ الخَدِّ مِن جُعلِ الوَردِ

أَراها بِخالِ الخَدِّ مِن جُعلِ الوَردِ

And what put me off that beauty spot was a resemblance

And that affinity made me spurn that mark

I see between the cheek’s beauty spot and the beetle on a rose.

For I see it on the cheek as paste of roses