يا مَنْ لَدَيْهِ العَفافُ والوَرَعُ

يا مَنْ لَدَيْهِ العَفافُ والوَرَعُ

وشيمتاه العَلاءُ والرِّفَعُ

وشيمتاه العَلاءُ والرِّفَعُ

O you in whom chastity and piety abide,

O you who possess chastity and piety,

whose twin qualities are loftiness and exalted rank:

and whose two traits are eminence and exalted standing:

كأسُكَ قد فُرِّقَتْ مَفاصِلُه

كأسُكَ قد فُرِّقَتْ مَفاصِلُه

بين النَّدامى فليسَ تَجتَمِعُ

بين النَّدامى فليسَ تَجتَمِعُ

your goblet—its very joints have been pulled apart

Your cup’s joints have been sundered

among the boon companions, never to come together.

among the drinking companions, and do not come together.

كأنَّما الشَّمْسُ بينَهم سَقَطَتْ

كأنَّما الشَّمْسُ بينَهم سَقَطَتْ

فجِسمُها في أكُفِّهِم قِطَعُ

فجِسمُها في أكُفِّهِم قِطَعُ

It is as though the sun had fallen among them,

As though the sun had fallen among them,

its body, in their palms, broken into pieces.

and its body lay in fragments in their palms.

لو لم أَكُنْ واثقاً بمُشبِهِه

لو لم أَكُنْ واثقاً بمُشبِهِه

منك لكادَ الفُؤادُ يَنْصَدِعُ

منك لكادَ الفُؤادُ يَنْصَدِعُ

Had I not been sure that its like would come

Were I not confident of one like it

from you, my heart would almost split apart.

from you, my heart would almost split apart.

فجُدْ به بِدْعَةً فعِنْدي من

فجُدْ به بِدْعَةً فعِنْدي من

جُودِكَ أشياءُ كلُّها بِدَعُ

جُودِكَ أشياءُ كلُّها بِدَعُ

So grant it freely—your matchless creation—for I have,

So bestow it as a marvel, for I have, from

from your bounty, things that are marvels all.

your bounty, things that are all marvels.