1. أَظاعِنونَ فَنَبكي أَم مُقيمونا

    إِنّا لَفي غَفلَةٍ عَمّا تُريدونا

    Are you departing, so that we must weep, or are you staying?

    We are indeed unaware of what you intend.

  2. أَنكَرتُ مَن وُدَّكُم ما كُنتُ أَعرِفُهُ

    ما أَنتُمُ لي كَما كُنتُم تَكونونا

    In your affection I no longer recognize what I once knew;

    You are no longer to me as you once were.

  3. لا سَيءٌّ عِندَكُم يُغني وَلا حَسَنٌ

    فَالمُحسِنونَ سَواءٌ وَالمُسيئونا

    Neither a bad deed nor a good one avails with you;

    So those who do good and those who do wrong are alike.

  4. هَل تُنكِرون وُقوفي عِندَ دارِكُمُ

    نِصفَ النَهارِ وَأَهلُ الدارِ هادونا

    Do you deny my standing by your house

    At midday, while the household is at rest?

  5. نَشكو الظَماءَ وَما نَشكوه عَن عَطَشٍ

    لَكِن لِغُلَّةِ قَلبٍ باتَ مَحزونا

    We complain of thirst, though our complaint does not spring from thirst,

    But from the burning thirst of a heart that spent the night grieving.

  6. إِن كانَ يَنفَعُكُم ما تَصنَعونَ بِنا

    وَسَرَّكُم طولُ ما نَلقى فَزيدونا

    If what you do to us benefits you,

    And the length of our suffering delights you, then give us more.

  7. يا فَوزُ ما مَلَّني حَقّاً رَسولُكُم

    حَتّى مَلِلتُم وَما كُنتُم تَمَلّونا

    O Fawz, your messenger truly did not grow weary of me

    Until you wearied of me, though you had not done so before.

  8. وَلا اِستَخَفَّ بِأَمرٍ لي أُعَظِّمُهُ

    حَتّى رَآكُم بِأَمري تَستَخِفّونا

    Nor did he make light of a matter of mine that I held important

    Until he saw you making light of my concern.

  9. لَو كُنتُ أَشكو إِلى قَومٍ قَتَلتُ لَهُم

    نَفساً لَظَلّوا لِما أَشكوهُ يَبكونا

    Were I to complain to people from whom I had taken

    A life, they would go on weeping over what I complain of.

  10. وَأَنتُمُ أَهلَ وُدّي قَد شُغِفَتُ بَكُم

    تَبلى عِظامي وَأَنتُم لا تُبالونا

    Yet you, my loved ones, with whom I am deeply smitten—

    My bones waste away while you do not care.

  11. كَأَنَّني وَالهَوى في الأَرضِ يَطرُدُني

    مِن قَومِ موسى الأُلى كانوا يَتيهونا

    It is as though I, with love driving me across the earth,

    Were one of Moses's people, who wandered lost.

  12. وَما مَرَرتُ بِقَومٍ في مَجالِسِهم

    إِلاّ سَمِعتُهُمُ فينا يَخوضونا

    Never have I passed people in their gatherings

    Without hearing them talking about us.

  13. وَقَد أَمِنّا عَلى أَسرارِنا نَفَراً

    كانوا كَأَولادِ يَعقوبٍ يَخونونا

    And we entrusted our secrets to a group of men

    Who betrayed us like the sons of Jacob.

  14. وَيحَ المُحِبّينَ ما أَشقى جُدودَهُمُ

    إِن كانَ مِثلُ الَّذي بي بِالمُحِبّينا

    Alas for lovers—how wretched their fortunes,

    If lovers endure the like of what afflicts me!

  15. يَشقونَ في هَذِهِ الدُنيا بِعِشقِهِمُ

    لا يُدرِكونَ بِهِ دُنيا وَلا دينا

    They suffer in this world because of their passion;

    Through it they attain neither worldly nor religious good.

  16. يَرِقُّ قَلبي لِأَهلِ العِشقِ أَنَّهُمُ

    إِذا رَأَوني وَما أَلقى يَرِقّونا

    My heart is tender toward lovers, for they,

    When they see me and what I endure, are moved to pity.

  17. أَبكي وَمِثلي بَكى مِن حُبِّ جارِيَةٍ

    لَم يَجعَلِ اللَهُ لي في قَلبِها لينا

    I weep, and others like me have wept, for love of a maiden

    In whose heart God has placed no tenderness for me.

  18. يا فوزُ كَم مِن ذَوي ضِغنٍ رَأَيتُهُمُ

    يَنهَونَ عَنكِ وَلَكِن لا يُطاعونا

    O Fawz, how many spiteful men I have seen

    Bidding me keep away from you, yet they are not obeyed.

  19. وَلا نُباليهِمُ إِذ قَد وَثِقتِ بِنا

    أَيُكثِرونَ كَلاماً أَم يُقِلّونا

    And we pay them no heed, since you have trusted us,

    Whether they speak much or little.