عاذِلي في المُدامِ غَيرَ نَصيحِ

عاذِلي في المُدامِ غَيرَ نَصيحِ

لا تَلُمني عَلى شَقيقَةِ روحي

لا تَلُمني عَلى شَقيقَةِ روحي

The one who reproaches me for wine is no sincere adviser.

Blame me not for revelry in wine

My blamer regarding the wine offers no sincere advice,

Do not blame me for my soul’s sister.

Reproach me not for the soul's twin that enticed me

Do not rebuke me for the twin sister of my soul,

لا تَلُمني عَلى الَّتي فَتَنَتني

لا تَلُمني عَلى الَّتي فَتَنَتني

وَأَرَتني القَبيحَ غَيرَ قَبيحِ

وَأَرَتني القَبيحَ غَيرَ قَبيحِ

Do not blame me for her who bewitched me

Blame me not for she who led me astray

Do not rebuke me for the one who has bewitched me,

And made the ugly seem not ugly to me.

And made ugly seem fair, not ugly

And made the unsightly appear to me as fair.

قَهوَةٌ تَترُكُ الصَحيحَ سَقيماً

قَهوَةٌ تَترُكُ الصَحيحَ سَقيماً

وَتُعيرُ السَقيمَ ثَوبَ الصَحيحِ

وَتُعيرُ السَقيمَ ثَوبَ الصَحيحِ

Wine that leaves the healthy sick

A coffee that makes the healthy sick

A dark vintage that renders the healthy man infirm,

And lends the sick the robe of the healthy.

And mocks the sick with garb of the healthy

While lending the infirm the very cloak of health.

إِنَّ بَذلي لَها لَبَذلُ جَوادٍ

إِنَّ بَذلي لَها لَبَذلُ جَوادٍ

وَاِقتِنائي لَها اِقتِنَاءُ شَحيحِ

وَاِقتِنائي لَها اِقتِنَاءُ شَحيحِ

Indeed, I give her away as a generous man gives,

My spending on her is spending of generosity

Truly, I spend upon her with the largesse of the generous,

And acquire her as a miser acquires.

And my keeping her is keeping of the stingy

Yet I hoard her possession with the greed of a miser.