يا ذا الغزال الأرملي

جودوا عليّ بوصلكم

O gazelle of the sands,

Be generous to me with your companionship.

وانظر إليّ ورقّ لي

لا تحرموني فضلكم

And look at me, and take pity on me.

Do not deny me your favor.

خالفت فيكم عذلي

ويحقّ لي في مثلكم

I defied my reproachers for your sake,

And I am justified, for one such as you.

طوبى لجسم قد بلى

وفنى بكم ولأجلكم

Blessed is a body that has wasted away

And perished through you and for your sake.

قد طاب لي في العالمين رقى

فيكم ولا واللَه أودّ عتقي

Sweet to me in all the worlds has become my bondage

To you—and, by God, I do not desire my freedom.

في حبكم لا أبقى ولا أبقى

ياذا العيون النجل

In loving you, I neither spare nor am spared.

O you with wide eyes,

من حلّ سفك دمي لكم

هواكم قد لذّ لي

Who permitted you to shed my blood?

Love for you has become sweet to me.

فعساكم ولعلكم

يا ساكني شرقي الكثيب

So may you—and perhaps you will...

O dwellers east of the dune,

رقوا لحالي وارحموا

إني بكم مضنى كئيب

Have pity on my plight and show mercy.

Indeed, because of you I am wasted and sorrowful.

وأنتم لو تعلموا

قد ساءني قول الرقيب

And you—if only you knew!

The watcher's words have indeed distressed me,

وعذلي لا أكرموا

ليس الشجي مثل الخلي

And my reproachers—may they not be honored!

The sorrowful one is not like the carefree.

كفوا عذولي عذلكم

واللَه عن حب الحبيب ما رجع

Cease your reproaches, my reproacher.

By God, there has been no turning back from love of the beloved,

لو كنت أقطع كل إرب أربع

أنا السقيم الواله المولع

Even if every limb of mine were cut into four pieces.

I am the ailing one, distraught and infatuated.

نوحي كنوح البلبل

من كثرة أشواقي لكم

My lament is like the bulbul's lament,

From the abundance of my longing for you.

عنكم قليبي ما سلا

وخاطري ما ملكم

My little heart has not forgotten you,

And my mind has not tired of you.