يا مَن بِمُقلَتِهِ يَصيدُ

يا مَن بِمُقلَتِهِ يَصيدُ

وَعَنِ الصِيادَةِ لا يَحيدُ

وَعَنِ الصِيادَةِ لا يَحيدُ

O you who hunt with your eye,

Oh captor with your glances you hunt

O you who hunts with his eye,

And never turn aside from hunting,

Yet from hunting you do not deviate

And never wavers from the chase,

بِاللَهِ في حَقِّ الهَوى

بِاللَهِ في حَقِّ الهَوى

أَن لا تُصادَ وَقَد تَصيدُ

أَن لا تُصادَ وَقَد تَصيدُ

By God, for love's sake,

By God, in the right of passion

By God, and by the rights of passion,

May you not be hunted, though you hunt.

Be not captured though you capture

Beware lest you be caught while you are hunting.

تَسبي القُلوبَ بِمُقلَةٍ

تَسبي القُلوبَ بِمُقلَةٍ

أَلحاظُها فيها شُهودُ

أَلحاظُها فيها شُهودُ

You take hearts captive with an eye

You enslave hearts with a glance

You take hearts captive with an eye,

Whose glances are witnesses within them.

Their witnesses to it abound

Whose glances bear witness within.