1. بأيمن السفح من زرود

    عطبول تسبى كلّ من نظرها

    On the right-hand slope of Zarud,

    A long-necked beauty captures everyone who beholds her.

  2. هيفاء مياسة القدود

    يكاد يكسو جسمها شعرها

    Slender-waisted, with a gracefully swaying figure,

    Her hair all but clothes her body.

  3. وازهر قد زين الخدود

    وعينها قد زانها حورها

    And radiance has adorned her cheeks,

    And her eye is graced by its rich contrast of black and white.

  4. ان كان زان السما وقود

    قمر فهذا في أرضها قمرها

    If the sky is adorned by the glow

    Of a moon, then she is its moon on the earth beneath it.

  5. أقسم بهاما أعشق أحد سواها

    وغاية المقصود لي رضاها

    I swear by her: I love no one but her.

    And my ultimate aim is her favor.

  6. أنا الذي أهوى في الهوى هواها

    أحبّ رمانة النهود

    I am the one who, in love, desires her love.

    I love the pomegranate of her breasts,

  7. وأحبّ من فوق الثرى أثرها

    ولا أستمع زجرة الحسود

    And I love her trace upon the earth.

    And I heed no rebuke from the envious.

  8. سيان عندي نفعها أو ضررها

    باللَه يا جيرة اللوى

    Her benefit or her harm is all the same to me.

    By God, O neighbors of al-Liwa,

  9. لا تهدموا بالبعد ما بنيتم

    اني على مقتضى الهوى

    Do not destroy, through separation, what you have built.

    Indeed, I abide by the dictates of love:

  10. لم ينسكم قلبي وان نأيتم

    وكلّ أحوالكم سوى

    My heart has not forgotten you, though you have gone far away.

    And all your ways are alike to me,

  11. ان شئتم وصلي وان أبيتم

    ما حيلة الماكن القيود

    Whether you desire union with me or refuse.

    What recourse has one held fast in fetters?

  12. النفس منقاده لمن أسرها

    باح الجفا ما عاد ذا التكتم

    The soul submits to whoever has taken it captive.

    Estrangement is exposed; this concealment is no more.

  13. يا عذلي جرتم عليّ جرتم

    فليس لي مخلص وان عذلتم

    O my reproachers, you have wronged me—you have wronged me!

    For I have no escape, even if you reproach me.

  14. وكيف لي ينبغي الجحود

    وأعيني في خدّها مطرها

    And how could denial befit me,

    While my eyes pour their rain upon the cheek beneath them?

  15. والدمع من أعدل الشهود

    على المحبه نصّ معتبرها

    And tears are among the most just witnesses

    To love, as one who judges it has expressly declared.

  16. ما هب من نحوكم نسيم

    إلا أطار النوم من جفوني

    No breeze blows from your direction

    Without driving sleep from my eyelids,

  17. شوقا لمن حلّ في تريم

    ان قربوا وصلي وان جفوني

    With longing for those who dwell in Tarim,

    Whether they bring union with me nearer or shun me.

  18. أذكر بها عهدي القديم

    أيام قرّت باللقا عيوني

    There I recall my days of old,

    Those days when meeting gladdened my eyes.

  19. يا ليت تيك لي تعود

    ونجتني بالوصل من ثمرها

    Oh, if only those days would return to me,

    And through reunion we could gather some of their fruit.

  20. بجاه سيدنا النبي محمد

    الهاشمي الأبطحي الممجد

    By the rank of our master, the Prophet Muhammad,

    The Hashimite, the Abtahi, the glorified,

  21. من حبه أو اتبعه يسعد

    ببركته تحمي الحدود

    Whoever loves him or follows him is blessed.

    Through his blessing the bounds are protected,

  22. وفي القيامه ما نرى سعرها

    شريعته زانت الوجود

    And at the Resurrection we shall not see its blaze.

    His law has adorned existence.

  23. عمر إله الخلق من عمرها

    May the God of creation grant long life to whoever sustains it.