جلا عني سلامك يا خليلي

جلا عني سلامك يا خليلي

من الأشجان ما يقذى الجفونا

من الأشجان ما يقذى الجفونا

Your greeting, my dear friend, has dispelled from me

Your peace has departed from me, O my friend

the sorrows that chafe the eyelids.

With sorrows that scorch the eyelids

أكاد أرى بها صبحي ظلاما

أكاد أرى بها صبحي ظلاما

وأسباب الأماني لي منونا

وأسباب الأماني لي منونا

Because of them, I almost see my morning as darkness,

I almost see my morning as darkness

and the means to fulfill my hopes as my doom.

And the causes of wishes have died for me

فكم من مؤنس فارقت رغما

فكم من مؤنس فارقت رغما

وكم من موحش القى قرينا

وكم من موحش القى قرينا

How many a congenial companion I have left against my will,

So many a companion I was forced to leave

and how many an uncongenial soul I encounter as a companion.

And so many a lonely one I met as a mate

وكم من مأرب قد ند عني

وكم من مأرب قد ند عني

وغادرني ائن له انينا

وغادرني ائن له انينا

And how many a desire has slipped away from me

And so many a goal that has become out of reach

and left me groaning for it.

And left me moaning for it, sighing

وما انا واجد في الناس طرا

وما انا واجد في الناس طرا

على وطري واشجاني معينا

على وطري واشجاني معينا

And among all people I find no one

And I cannot find among people a cure

to help me with my desire and my sorrows:

For my affliction and my sorrows as a helper

فاما قابض كفيه لؤما

فاما قابض كفيه لؤما

واما مفلت دنيا ودينا

واما مفلت دنيا ودينا

either one clenches both hands out of meanness,

For either a tyrant has clenched his fists

or one is unrestrained in worldly life and religion.

Or a libertine has abandoned religion and world

كأن الناس قد صاروا ذئابا

كأن الناس قد صاروا ذئابا

تنوش الغث نوشا والسمينا

تنوش الغث نوشا والسمينا

It is as though people have turned into wolves

It is as if people have become wolves

that snatch at the lean and the fat alike.

That gulp down the barren and the fertile

اذا اوهمت ان بهم قمينا

اذا اوهمت ان بهم قمينا

بخير عاد من امم قمينا

بخير عاد من امم قمينا

If you are led to think that one among them is worthy

If I fancied that they would provide support

of good, at close quarters he turns into a kiln.

The tribes proved otherwise

وان تقصد بساحتهم خدينا

وان تقصد بساحتهم خدينا

تصادفه دخانا او اتونا

تصادفه دخانا او اتونا

And if you seek an intimate friend in their courtyard,

And if I sought their friendship

you find him to be smoke or a furnace.

I found smoke or fire

كأن الهجر عندهم ادام

كأن الهجر عندهم ادام

ومن وضر الخنى وردوا معينا

ومن وضر الخنى وردوا معينا

It is as though estrangement were their relish,

It is as if estrangement to them is perpetual

and they have come to drink from a flowing spring of obscene filth.

And when the cheek became rough they provided solace

اذا باعدتهم هاجوا جنونا

اذا باعدتهم هاجوا جنونا

وان دانيتهم ماجوا مجونا

وان دانيتهم ماجوا مجونا

If you keep them at a distance, they erupt in madness,

If I distanced myself from them, they raged in madness

and if you draw close to them, they surge with wantonness.

And if I drew nearer, they raved in foolishness

يحارب دهرنا من كان سلما

يحارب دهرنا من كان سلما

ويختان الذي يبقى امينا

ويختان الذي يبقى امينا

Our age wages war on whoever is peaceable,

Time fights whoever remains peaceful

and betrays whoever remains trustworthy.

And mutilates whoever remains faithful

وذلك دأبه فينا قديما

وذلك دأبه فينا قديما

فلا تعجب لفعل كان دينا

فلا تعجب لفعل كان دينا

Such has long been its habit with us,

That has been its way with us since old

so do not marvel at an act that is its custom.

So do not be surprised at a deed that was fated

اراك دريت شاني راثيالي

اراك دريت شاني راثيالي

فهل ادراك ما اجرى الشؤونا

فهل ادراك ما اجرى الشؤونا

I see you have learned my plight and pity me;

I see you have realized my state, consoling me

but has it told you what set the tears flowing?

Do you realize what destiny has unfolded?

بعاد احبتي عني واني

بعاد احبتي عني واني

احن إلى وصالهم حنينا

احن إلى وصالهم حنينا

It is my loved ones' distance from me; and I

My loved ones have departed from me and I

yearn deeply for reunion with them.

Yearn for their reunion, pining

اراني بعد فرقتهم

اراني بعد فرقتهم

كآبة والد فقد البنينا

كآبة والد فقد البنينا

I find myself, after parting from them,

I see myself, after their separation

with the grief of a father who has lost his sons.

Gloomy like a father who lost his sons

فما بي في نهاري من حراك

فما بي في نهاري من حراك

ولا في ليلتي القى سكونا

ولا في ليلتي القى سكونا

So in my day I do not stir,

So I have no liveliness in my day

nor in my night do I find repose.

Nor do I find tranquility in my night

فيا طول ائتراقي واحتراقي

فيا طول ائتراقي واحتراقي

على بعد الاحبة اجمعينا

على بعد الاحبة اجمعينا

Oh, how long my sleeplessness and burning endure

Oh, the length of my separation and burning

over separation from all my loved ones!

For the absence of all my loved ones

وانت اعزهم عندي مقاما

وانت اعزهم عندي مقاما

فدم بالله معتصما مصونا

فدم بالله معتصما مصونا

And you hold the dearest place among them in my regard,

And you are the dearest to me in status

so remain holding fast to God, protected.

So stay, I implore you, protected and safe