يا غادياً متوسّطا

يا غادياً متوسّطا

للسير ظهر قعوده

للسير ظهر قعوده

O morning traveler, straddling

O you who are walking leisurely

His young riding camel's back for the journey:

To traverse its back sitting

ما اخترت بعدك عكبرا

ما اخترت بعدك عكبرا

وطنا لبذل مفيده

وطنا لبذل مفيده

I did not choose Ukbara after you left

I have not chosen after you another homeland

As a home for its benefactor's bounty,

To give my useful efforts

لكن لحسن جنانه

لكن لحسن جنانه

وجمال نشئ يهوده

وجمال نشئ يهوده

But for the beauty of its gardens

But for the goodness of its heavens

And the beauty of its Jewish youth.

And the beauty of its flourishing youth

ومن البلاء ظباؤه

ومن البلاء ظباؤه

يملكن رق أسوده

يملكن رق أسوده

And among the torments are its gazelles:

And from affliction its gazelles

They hold its lions in bondage.

Rule me, their black eyes

أفدي الذي قطع الوصا

أفدي الذي قطع الوصا

ل وحل عقد مكيده

ل وحل عقد مكيده

I would ransom the one who severed the bond

I sacrifice those who cut the ties

And untied the bonds of his victim.

And untied the knot of his scheme

وجمعتُ من حبّيه ما

وجمعتُ من حبّيه ما

قد لجّ في تبديده

قد لجّ في تبديده

And I gathered from my love for him what

And I collected from my love what

He had stubbornly persisted in scattering.

Was scattered in his loss

وعصيت من أضحى يلو

وعصيت من أضحى يلو

م عليه في تفنيده

م عليه في تفنيده

And I defied the one who began to reproach me

And I disobeyed those who began to blame

Over him, in his faultfinding.

Him and refute him

أفديه من متدلل

أفديه من متدلل

في وصله وصدوده

في وصله وصدوده

I would ransom him—so coy

I sacrifice him from the one self-indulgent

In his intimacy and his shunning.

In his union and his distance

هاروت في لحظاته

هاروت في لحظاته

إبلس بعض جنوده

إبلس بعض جنوده

Harut is in his glances;

Harut in his glances

Iblis is one of his troops.

Iblis lost some of his soldiers

أحيا وأتلف في هوا

أحيا وأتلف في هوا

ه بوعده ووعيده

ه بوعده ووعيده

I live and perish in love with him,

He brought to life and destroyed in his love

Through his promise and his threat.

With his promise and his threat