قلبي اللديغ وانت انت الراقي

قلبي اللديغ وانت انت الراقي

بل انت يا حلو اللمى ترياقي

بل انت يا حلو اللمى ترياقي

My heart is stung, and you—you are its healer.

My wounded heart, and you are the sublime one

Rather, you, O sweet one with dusky lips, are my antidote.

Rather you, O sweet of beauty, are my antidote

وحياتك القلب الكليم مهيم

وحياتك القلب الكليم مهيم

بك عن سواك يذوب بالاشواق

بك عن سواك يذوب بالاشواق

By your life, the wounded heart is love-distraught;

And your life, my sincere heart is infatuated

For you alone it melts with longing.

With you besides you it melts with yearning

لك فيه منزلة عظيم شأنها

لك فيه منزلة عظيم شأنها

شمخت وانت الى ذراها الراقي

شمخت وانت الى ذراها الراقي

Within it, yours is a station of great esteem;

For you it has a great status, glorious is its affair

Lofty it stands, and you climb to its heights.

You have shone and you are still the sublime one

قيدته بك حيث انت بكله

قيدته بك حيث انت بكله

لك يا حبيبي حضرة الاطلاق

لك يا حبيبي حضرة الاطلاق

I bound it to you, for you fill it entirely;

I have tied it to you wherever you are in all of it

Yours, my beloved, is the realm of the unbounded.

For you my beloved the presence of freedom

يا معرضا عني بلا ذنب اما

يا معرضا عني بلا ذنب اما

لفتتك نحوي جذوة الاحراق

لفتتك نحوي جذوة الاحراق

O you who shun me though I am blameless—has not

O you who turns away from me without a sin, so

The burning ember drawn your gaze toward me?

Your glance towards me is an ember of burning

افرطت بالتعذيب عن ظلم فما

افرطت بالتعذيب عن ظلم فما

بك رحمة انا على العشاق

بك رحمة انا على العشاق

You have gone too far in unjust torment, so there is no

You have been excessive in torment without injustice, so

Mercy in you, even for a moment, for lovers.

With you there is no mercy upon lovers

يا ليل قد صابرت طولك ساهرا

يا ليل قد صابرت طولك ساهرا

ومدامعي تجري من الاماق

ومدامعي تجري من الاماق

O night, I have patiently endured your length, sleepless,

O night, I have been patient with your length sleepless

And my tears flow from the corners of my eyes.

And my tears are flowing from the eyelids

والظاعنون سروا ويحمل ركبهم

والظاعنون سروا ويحمل ركبهم

بمهامه البيداء زهر نياق

بمهامه البيداء زهر نياق

And those departing traveled by night; their caravan is borne

And those who blame have departed, their caravan carries

Through the desert's trackless wastes by white she-camels.

With its cargo the white flower, Narcissus

طرقوا الطريق ولي دموع بعدهم

طرقوا الطريق ولي دموع بعدهم

رشت فجاج الدرب للطراق

رشت فجاج الدرب للطراق

They trod the road, and after them my tears

They have taken the path and after them I have tears

Sprinkled the road's broad passes for wayfarers.

That have watered the pebbles of the road for the narcissus

اخذوا فؤادي فهو ضمن رحالهم

اخذوا فؤادي فهو ضمن رحالهم

رهن ومني قد اذابوا الباقي

رهن ومني قد اذابوا الباقي

They took my heart, and amid their baggage it lies

They have taken my heart, so it is among their belongings

A hostage, and they have melted away the rest of me.

Pledged, and from me they have melted the rest

وغزيل في الركب اجج اوعتي

وغزيل في الركب اجج اوعتي

منه لطيف المبسم البراق

منه لطيف المبسم البراق

And a little gazelle in the caravan kindled my anguish,

And a gazelle among the caravan ignited my love

With his delicate, radiant smile.

From it the gentle smiling radiance

كم راح يضحك اذ يراني باكياً

كم راح يضحك اذ يراني باكياً

والقاع رش بدمعي الرقراق

والقاع رش بدمعي الرقراق

How often he kept laughing when he saw me weeping,

How much it laughed when it saw me crying

While the plain was sprinkled with my shimmering tears.

And the plains were sprinkled with my dripping tears

ولكم ذكرت له شؤُن تولهي

ولكم ذكرت له شؤُن تولهي

بجنابه فاستعذب استرقاقي

بجنابه فاستعذب استرقاقي

And how often I told him of my lovesick passion

And how much I mentioned to it concerns of its diversion

For him—and he found my enslavement sweet.

With its side, so it found sweet my enslavement

ملكته رقي فافرط بالاذى

ملكته رقي فافرط بالاذى

واضاع رفعة شامخ استحقاقي

واضاع رفعة شامخ استحقاقي

I made him master of my bondage; he went too far in hurting me,

It possessed my slavery so it was excessive in harm

And laid waste the eminence of my lofty merit.

And lost the loftiness of my towering entitlement

زعم المعالي بالجمال وانما

زعم المعالي بالجمال وانما

شرف الكمال مكارم الاخلاق

شرف الكمال مكارم الاخلاق

He claimed eminence through beauty, yet only

It claimed the glories of beauty, but

Noble character is the honor of perfection.

The honor of perfection is noble manners