1. تَأَنف صحبة النَفسِ

    سُرور المبعد المَنسي

    You disdain the soul's companionship,

    O joy of the banished, forgotten one.

  2. عَليلٌ قَد كَساهُ الدَم

    ع أَثواباً مِن الوَرس

    An ailing man whom tears have clothed

    in robes of yellow wars dye;

  3. كَئيب لا يَسرُّ وَلا

    بِحال القُرب وَالأُنس

    dejected, finding no delight, not even

    in nearness and companionship.

  4. وَذاكَ لِغَيرة أَفضَت

    بيَ لِلضر وَالبُؤس

    And that is from a jealousy that has led

    me to harm and misery.

  5. أَغارَ عَلَيهِ مِن إِدرا

    كِهِ بِالوَهم وَالحِس

    I am jealous over him, of any perception

    of him through imagination and the senses,

  6. وَمِن لَحظات كاتِبِهِ

    فَكَيفَ بِأَعيُن الأُنس

    and of his scribe's glances—

    then what of human eyes?

  7. بِنَفسي مَن يَجرَح خَد

    ه بِاللَمحة الخلس

    My soul be ransom for him whose cheek

    is wounded by a furtive glance;

  8. وَلا يَقوى لَهُ عَضوٌ

    لِرقَتِهِ عَلى لَمس

    and no limb of his has the strength,

    so tender is he, to bear a touch.

  9. وَيَفخَر قَلبُهُ القاسي

    بِسَلب حَشاشة النَفس

    Yet his hard heart takes pride

    in stealing the soul's last remnant of life;

  10. وَيَهجُر زاعِماً إِن ال

    لقا ضَرب مِن الرَجس

    and he shuns me, claiming that

    meeting is a kind of defilement.