تعذيب قلبي في هواك حلالي

رفقا فما هذا الاذى بحلال

The torment of my heart in loving you is lawful to me.

Be gentle, for this harm is not lawful.

اسمع فديتك انني ذو ذلة

هلا ترق لذلتي ولحالي

Listen, may I be your ransom: I am abased.

Will you not pity my abasement and my plight?

كم ذا اداري في هواك عواذلي

والموت دون شماتة العذال

How long must I placate my reproachers in loving you?

And death is easier than the reproachers' gloating.

هجموا علي بحقدهم وتطاولوا

ما للعواذل في هواك ومالي

They assailed me with their rancor and grew insolent.

What have the reproachers to do with my love for you, and I with them?

اصبحت من وجدي عليك ولوعتي

مثل الخيالي وفيك دق خيالي

From my yearning for you and my anguish, I have become

Like a phantom; and for you my shadow has grown thin.

مضنى اخو له بضارم زفرتي

ونحول جسمي كالخلال البالي

Worn out—a brother to him [unclear wording]—with the blaze of my sigh.

And my body is thin as a worn-out toothpick.

وكتمت ما القاه من الم النوى

عن آل عمي الاقربي وخالي

And I concealed the pain of separation that I endure

From my closest paternal uncle's family and my maternal uncle.

وحفظت سري في هواك وصنته

والدمع باح ولم ابح بمقالي

And I guarded my secret in loving you and protected it.

And tears revealed it, though I did not reveal it in my words.

أىرى اراك مواصلي بعد الجفا

وأقول أحسن هاجري بوصال

I wonder: will I see you rejoin me after estrangement,

And say, 'My forsaker has shown kindness through reunion,'

وتمزق الاستار عنك لناظري

في ليلة سأعدها بليالي

As the veils are torn away from you before my eyes,

In a night I shall count as many nights?

انا حجتي عجزي واني جاهل

مع عد انفاسي عواقب حالي

As for me, my plea is my helplessness, and that I do not know

Despite counting my breaths, how my condition will end.

فالطف بأمري يا كريم فإنني

في باب جودك قد انخت رحالي

So be gentle with my plight, O generous one, for I

Have made my saddled mounts kneel at the gate of your bounty.