سُلُوِّي عَنْ هَواكُمْ لا يَجُوزُ

سُلُوِّي عَنْ هَواكُمْ لا يَجُوزُ

وَبَعْضُ هَواكُمُ كُلّي يَحُوزُ

وَبَعْضُ هَواكُمُ كُلّي يَحُوزُ

I may not cease to love you;

Ask me not to change my love, for some loves fully capture the heart

And a fraction of love for you possesses all of me.

Yet chastisements for loving you should not against me be thought

وَلَوْمُ عَوَاذلي في الحُبِّ فِيكُمْ

وَلَوْمُ عَوَاذلي في الحُبِّ فِيكُمْ

وَحَقِّكُمُ بِأذْني لا يَجُوزُ

وَحَقِّكُمُ بِأذْني لا يَجُوزُ

And my reproachers’ blame for my love of you—

I have a fawn whose beauty my heart holds most dear

By your honor, it does not pass through my ear.

His love that my heart cherishes, ever precious

وَلي ظَبْيٌ غَريرٌ في حِمَاكُمْ

وَلي ظَبْيٌ غَريرٌ في حِمَاكُمْ

لَهُ حُسْنٌ على قَلْبي عَزيزُ

لَهُ حُسْنٌ على قَلْبي عَزيزُ

And I have a guileless gazelle in your sanctuary;

So my love for him though dead hopes to be resurrected

His beauty is dear to my heart.

If no perverseness from people should come to be

فَميِّتُ حُبِّهِ يَرْجُو نُشُوراً

فَميِّتُ حُبِّهِ يَرْجُو نُشُوراً

إِذَا لَمْ يَأْتِ مِنْ خَلْقٍ نُشُوزُ

إِذَا لَمْ يَأْتِ مِنْ خَلْقٍ نُشُوزُ

So one slain by love of him hopes for resurrection,

For every love of humankind is but borrowed

If no estrangement comes from any creature.

Yet my love for you within me is true and uncoerced

وكُلُّ هَوَى البَرايا مُسْتَعارٌ

وكُلُّ هَوَى البَرايا مُسْتَعارٌ

وَلَكِنْ حُبُّكُمْ عِنْدِي غَرِيزُ

وَلَكِنْ حُبُّكُمْ عِنْدِي غَرِيزُ

And all humankind’s love is borrowed,

But love for you is innate in me.