1. عُد عَن جُنونك أَيُّها القَلبُ

    قَد مَلَكَ الأَحبابَ وَالصَحب

    Turn back from your madness, O heart.

    It has taken hold of loved ones and companions.

  2. كَم ذا الوَلَوع وَكُل نار جَوى

    خَمدت وَنار جَواكَ لَم تَخب

    How long this ardor, when every fire of love's anguish

    has died down, yet the fire of your anguish remains unquenched?

  3. وَالامَ تَحييك المُنى أَبَداً

    وَيَميتكَ الأَعراض وَالعتب

    And how long will hopes endlessly revive you,

    while rejection and reproach put you to death?

  4. مَن مُنصِفي مِمَن يَرى تَلفي

    وَيصدهُ عَن رَحمَتي العَجَب

    Who will grant me justice against one who sees my ruin,

    yet whose conceit keeps him from showing me mercy?

  5. طالَ الصُدود وَمالَهُ سَبَب

    وَقَضى عَلَيَّ الوَجد وَالكَرب

    Rejection has lasted long, and it has no cause;

    and longing and anguish have undone me.

  6. لَم آتِ ذَنباً يَقتَضي تَلفي

    أَترى المَحبة عِندَهُ ذَنب

    I have committed no sin that warrants my ruin.

    Do you think love is a sin in his eyes?

  7. وَبِمُهجَتي مِن صَدَّ مُحتَجِباً

    عَني فَزادَ الوَجد وَالحُب

    And with my lifeblood I would ransom him who turned away, veiling himself

    from me, so longing and love increased.

  8. إِزدادَ وَجداً كُلَما كَثُرَت

    مِن دُونِهِ الأَستار وَالحجب

    It grew in longing whenever there were more

    curtains and veils before him.

  9. لَولا تَحجبُهُ لَما حملت

    نَفسي الهَوان وَلا صَبا القَلب

    Had he not veiled himself, there would have been no enduring

    of humiliation by my soul, nor any yearning in my heart.

  10. وضيمن يَصون جَمالُهُ أَبَداً

    يَحلو الهيام وَيُحسِنُ السكب

    And [unclear word in the supplied text] always guards his beauty;

    passion grows sweet and makes the shedding of tears lovely.

  11. وَالحَر لا يَسبيهِ مُبتَذَلٌ

    وَإِلى جَمال الدون لا يَصبو

    And the noble man is not captivated by someone commonplace,

    nor does he yearn for the beauty of the lowly.

  12. إِن كانَ حُسنَكَ بِالصِيانَة مَح

    مياً فَقَلبي لِلأَسى نَهب

    If your beauty is, through safeguarding, pro—

    —tected, then my heart is prey to grief.

  13. قالَ الطَبيب وَقَد رَأى سَقمي

    هَذا العَليل مُتَيَمٌ صَب

    The physician said, having seen my illness:

    This ailing man is enslaved by love and yearning;

  14. وَدَواءُهُ قُرب الحَبيب وَإِن

    لَم يَشفِهِ فَرضابُهُ العَذب

    and his remedy is nearness to the beloved; and if

    it does not cure him, then his beloved's sweet saliva.

  15. ولِسانُ حالي قالَ وَآسَفي

    عزَّ الدَواء وَأَعوَز الطبُّ

    And my condition's tongue said: Alas for my sorrow!

    The remedy is hard to obtain, and medicine is lacking.

  16. هَيهات أَن يَبرى عَليل الهَوى

    إِنَّ المُتَيم داؤُهُ صَعب

    How far from recovery is the one sick with love!

    Indeed, the love-enslaved one's malady is hard to cure.

  17. وَإِذا المُحب صَفَت سَرائِرُهُ

    لَم يَشفِهِ بَعد وَلا قرب

    And when the lover's innermost thoughts are pure,

    neither distance nor nearness cures him.