1. أيا شَبيهَ الذي باعُوه إخوتُه

    ويا سَمِيَّ الذي ألقَوهُ في النارِ

    O you who resemble the one whom his brothers sold,

    and O namesake of the one they cast into the fire!

  2. لولا مَلاحةُ قَدٍّ منك تُعجبني

    وحُسن طرفٍ مليح اللَّحظ سَحّارِ

    Were it not for the beauty of your figure that delights me,

    and the beauty of an eye with a lovely, bewitching glance,

  3. وحاجِبَينِ وأصداغٍ معقربةٍ

    وطرةٍ جعدةٍ سوداء كالقارِ

    and two eyebrows and sidelocks curled like scorpions,

    and a curly forelock, black as pitch,

  4. ما كنتُ أرعى نجوم الليل مُكتئباً

    ولا بكيتُ بدمعٍ واكفٍ جاري

    I would not watch the stars of night in sorrow,

    nor would I weep with falling, flowing tears.

  5. إن كنتَ قد حُلتَ عن وَصلي بلا جُرُمٍ

    فاللَهُ يُنصِفني من كلِّ غَدّارِ

    If you have indeed turned away from union with me, through no fault of mine,

    then God will grant me justice against every betrayer.