1. عَرَضَتْ وَالنَّجمُ واهٍ عِقدُهُ

    حرَّدٌ مُعتَجِرَاتٌ بِمِنَى

    They appeared while the stars’ necklace hung loose—

    aloof women, their heads wrapped, at Mina,

  2. في مُروطٍ وَلَّعَتها عَبرَتي

    لا سَقيطُ الطَلِّ عِندَ المُنحَنَى

    in cloaks mottled by my tears,

    not by falling dew beside the bend.

  3. فَرأَت آثارَها داميَةً

    ذاتُ خَصرٍ كادَ يُخفيهِ الضَّنَى

    Then she saw their bloodied traces—

    she whose waist wasting sickness almost hid.

  4. ثُمَّ قالَت مَن بَكى مِنّا دَماً

    وَهوَ لا يَخشى عَلَينا الأَعيُنَا

    Then she said, “Who wept blood on our account,

    without fearing watchful eyes upon us?”

  5. عَبرَةٌ لَم يَرَ مَن أَسبَلَها

    أَحَدٌ إِلّا رَفيقي وَأَنا

    A tear—the one who shed it was not seen

    by anyone but my companion and me.

  6. إِنَّ لِلعاشِقِ جَفناً خَضِلاً

    يُوَدِعُ الأَحزانَ قَلباً ضَمِنا

    Indeed, the lover has a tear-wet eyelid

    that lodges sorrows in an ailing heart.

  7. وَلَهُ دَمعٌ إِذا وَقَّرَهُ

    طاشَ مِن شَوقِ يَهيجُ الحَزَنا

    And he has tears which, when he tries to still them,

    burst forth from longing that stirs grief.

  8. وَبِنَفسي هيَ وَالسِّربُ الَّتِي

    توقِظُ الرَّكبَ إِذا الصُّبحُ دَنا

    My life for her and for the bevy who

    wake the caravan when dawn draws near,

  9. بِعُيونٍ سَحَرَتْ وَهْيَ ظُباً

    وَقُدودٍ خَطَرَت وَهي قَنا

    with eyes that bewitched, though they were blades,

    and figures that swayed, though they were spears.

  10. فَتَنَتْنِي وَالَّذي يُبصِرُها

    في لَيالي الحَجِّ يَلقى الفِتَنا

    She bewitched me, and whoever beholds her

    on pilgrimage nights encounters temptations.

  11. ثُمَّ لاحَ البَرقُ يَفري ظُلَماً

    حينَ يَسري وَهوَ عُلْوِيُّ السَّنا

    Then lightning flashed, cleaving layers of darkness,

    as it coursed by night, its radiance high above.

  12. فَشَجاني ذا وَهاتيكَ مَعاً

    أَيُّ خَطْبٍ طَرَقَ الصَبَّ هُنا

    So this lightning and that woman stirred my grief together.

    What calamity has visited the lovesick man here!

  13. وَأَراني البَرقُ إِذ أَرَّقَني

    بِمِنىً مِن أَرضِ نَجدٍ حَضَنا

    And the lightning, as it kept me awake, showed me

    Ḥaḍan in the land of Najd, while I was at Mina—

  14. مَنزِلٌ حَلَّ بِهِ لي سَكَنٌ

    بَعدَما اختارَ فؤادي وَطَنا

    a dwelling where a beloved of mine had settled,

    after choosing my heart as a home.

  15. كُلَّما شِئتُ تَأَمَّلتُ لَهُ

    مَنظَراً أَصبو إِلَيهِ حَسَنا

    Whenever I wished, I gazed upon my beloved’s

    lovely form, toward which I yearned,

  16. وَملأتُ السَّمعَ مِنّي كَلِماً

    يَحسُدُ القَلبُ عَلَيها الأُذُنا

    and filled my hearing with words

    for which the heart envies the ear.