Sol 6.1

  1. لَمَّا انْتَهَتْ عَيْني إِلىَ أَحْبَابِهَا

    شَاهَدْتُ صِرْفَ الرَّاحِ عَيْنَ حَبَابِهَا

    When my eye reached those it loves,

    I beheld pure wine, identical with its bubbles.

  2. أَأَرَى سِوَى لَيْلَى إِذَا حَكَمَ الجَفَا

    مِنْهَا عَلَيَّ بِبُعْدِهَا وَحِجَابِهَا

    Could I see anything but Layla, when estrangement decrees

    her distance and her veil as her sentence upon me,

  3. والَكَوْنُ مِنْ عُشَّاقِهَا وَيَفُوتُنُي

    أَدَبٌ يَرَاهُ الحُبِّ مِنْ آدَابِهَا

    while all existence is among her lovers—and could I miss

    a courtesy that Love counts among her courtesies?

  4. لاَ وَالَّذي جَعَل الضَّنَا وَالحُزْنَ

    جِلْبَابِي بِهَا وَالحُسْنَ مِنْ جِلْبَابِهَا

    No, by Him who made wasting sickness and sorrow

    my cloak because of her, and beauty part of her cloak.

  5. وَنَعِمْتُ مِنْ أَكْوَانِهَا وَرَأَى السِّوى

    غَيْريِ فَأَصْبَحَ قَلْبُهُ يُكْوَى بِهَا

    And I found bliss in her worlds; otherness was seen

    by someone other than me, whose heart then came to be seared by her.

  6. وَلَقَدْ طَرَقْتُ الحَيَّ بَيْنَ خِيَامِهِ

    فَكَأَنَّنِي لِلسُّقْمِ مِنْ أَطْنَابِهَا

    And indeed I visited the encampment by night, amid its tents,

    as though, from sickness, I were one of their guy ropes.

  7. وَقَرأْت هَاتِيكَ البِيُوتَ تَصَفُّحاً

    فَكَأَنَّنِي المَسْئُولُ عَنْ إِعْرَابِهَا

    And I read those dwellings, poring over them,

    as though I were the one questioned about their parsing.

  8. حَتَّى إِذَا جَذَبَ الصَّبَاحُ لِثَامَهُ

    وَرَمَتْ مَلِيَحةُ شَمْسِهِ بَنَقِابِهَا

    Until, when morning drew aside its veil,

    and its sun, the fair one, cast off her face veil,

  9. رَأَتْ الدُّجَيْنَةُ أَنَّني مِنْ بَعْضِهَا

    فَذَهَبْتُ بِالأَنْوَارِ عِنْدَ ذِهَابِهَا

    the dim darkness saw that I was part of her,

    so I carried off the lights at her departure.

  10. وَشَهِدْتُ لَيْلَى لاَ يَرَاهَا غَيْرُهَا

    وَجَمَالُهَا قَدْ شَفَّ مِنْ جِلْبَابِهَا

    And I beheld Layla, whom none but she herself sees,

    and her beauty had shone through her cloak.

  11. وَطَلَبْتُهَا فَوَجَدْتُ أَسْبَابَ المُنَى

    مَوْصُولَةً بالْيَأْسِ مَنْ أَسْبَابِهَا

    And I sought her, and found the means of fulfilling wishes

    bound to despair of the means of reaching her,

  12. إلاَّ لِمَنْ أَعْطَى الصَّبَابَةَ حَقَّهَا

    وَأَتَى بيوُتَ الحَيِّ مِنْ أَبْوَابِهَا

    except for one who gave passionate longing its due,

    and came to the encampment's dwellings through their doors,

  13. وَوَفَى بِعَهْدِ رَسُولِهَا في أَمْرِهِ

    عَنْهَا فَقَامَ مَقَامَهُ في بَابِهَا

    and was faithful to her messenger's covenant in what he commanded

    on her behalf, and so took his place at her door.