وشادن من بني الرهبان تاركني

وشادن من بني الرهبان تاركني

حبي وقد شاع بين الناسِ واشتهرا

حبي وقد شاع بين الناسِ واشتهرا

And a gazelle-like youth of the monks’ sons forsook me—

The monks reproach me for the love

my beloved—already famed among the people and well known.

That has spread among people and become renowned,

وقال لو كنت صباً لافتديت بمن

وقال لو كنت صباً لافتديت بمن

تهواه في لبسه الزنار والشعرا

تهواه في لبسه الزنار والشعرا

And he said, “Were you lovesick, you would have ransomed yourself with the one

And said, "If you were young, you would ransom

you love, in his wearing the girdle and haircloth.”

The one your heart desires, with his robe and hair."

فقلت لست بذنبي طالبا بدلا

فقلت لست بذنبي طالبا بدلا

ولو أذاب غرامي أعظمي وبرى

ولو أذاب غرامي أعظمي وبرى

So I said, “I seek no substitute for my sin,

So I said, "I do not seek compensation for my guilt,

even if my passion were to melt my bones and wear them away.”

Even if my passion melts my bones and flesh away."

وكان ذلك منه أصل سلوته

وكان ذلك منه أصل سلوته

والعزم في الأمر مما يعقب الضفرا

والعزم في الأمر مما يعقب الضفرا

And that act of his was the source of my forgetting him;

That was his way of consoling me at first,

and resolve in a matter is among what brings braiding [perhaps intended: victory].

But determination in this matter follows barrier.