مُحِبُّكَ مَجنِيٌّ عَلَيهِ بِحُبِّهِ

مُحِبُّكَ مَجنِيٌّ عَلَيهِ بِحُبِّهِ

وَلَو ماتَ حُبّاً فيكَ ما كَرِهَ الحُبّا

وَلَو ماتَ حُبّاً فيكَ ما كَرِهَ الحُبّا

Your lover is a victim of his love.

Your lover is afflicted by his love for you

Even if he died of love for you, he would not hate love.

And if he were to die of love for you, he would not dislike love

عَلَيهِ مِنَ الواشينَ فيكَ نَواظِرٌ

عَلَيهِ مِنَ الواشينَ فيكَ نَواظِرٌ

تُحَدِّقُ حَتّى تَخلَعَ الجَفنَ وَالهُدبا

تُحَدِّقُ حَتّى تَخلَعَ الجَفنَ وَالهُدبا

The slanderers' eyes are upon him because of you,

The gossipers' eyes are fixed on him

Staring until they cast off eyelid and lashes.

Staring intensely until their eyelids and brows ache

وَماذا عَلَيهِم أَن يَعودَ مَريضَهُ

وَماذا عَلَيهِم أَن يَعودَ مَريضَهُ

وَهَل هُوَ إِلّا الجِسمُ عادَ بِهِ القَلبا

وَهَل هُوَ إِلّا الجِسمُ عادَ بِهِ القَلبا

And what harm is it to them if he visits his ailing beloved?

What is it to them if his sickness returns to him

And is he not merely the body, with which he visited the heart?

For it is only the heart that has returned to the body

وَرِجلُ الفَتى في السَعى تَتبَعُ قَلبَهُ

وَرِجلُ الفَتى في السَعى تَتبَعُ قَلبَهُ

فَلِم عَظَّمَ الحُسّادُ أَن زُرتُهُ الخَطبا

فَلِم عَظَّمَ الحُسّادُ أَن زُرتُهُ الخَطبا

And a young man's foot, as he walks, follows his heart.

A young man's feet follow his heart in pursuit

Why, then, did the envious make such a grave affair of my visiting him?

So why did the envious make a fuss when I visited him at night

وَحاشا لِذاكَ الحُسنِ أَن يَلبِسَ الضَنى

وَحاشا لِذاكَ الحُسنِ أَن يَلبِسَ الضَنى

وَحاشا لِذاكَ النورِ أَن يَرِدَ الغَربا

وَحاشا لِذاكَ النورِ أَن يَرِدَ الغَربا

And far be it from that beauty to be clothed in wasting sickness,

Far be it from that beauty to wear grief

And far be it from that light to reach the west.

Far be it from that light to set in the west

أَرى كُلَّ عُضوٍ مِنكَ كَالقَلبِ في غَضىً

أَرى كُلَّ عُضوٍ مِنكَ كَالقَلبِ في غَضىً

وَكَالجَفنِ في إِرسالِهِ لُؤلُؤاً رَطبا

وَكَالجَفنِ في إِرسالِهِ لُؤلُؤاً رَطبا

I see every part of you, like the heart, amid ghada-wood embers,

I see every part of you like a heart in fervor

And like the eyelid in its shedding of moist pearls.

And like an eyelid sending forth moist pearls

فَلا تَخشَ مِن حُمّى وَلا رُحَضائِها

فَلا تَخشَ مِن حُمّى وَلا رُحَضائِها

تُحَبِّبُ إِن زارَت مَضاجِعَهُ غِبّا

تُحَبِّبُ إِن زارَت مَضاجِعَهُ غِبّا

So do not be afraid of fever or its sweat;

So do not fear any fever or its heat

It endears itself if it visits his beds every other day.

It makes affectionate if it visits his bed absently

ولَو أَنَّني عانَقتُهُ ثُمَّ أَقبَلَت

ولَو أَنَّني عانَقتُهُ ثُمَّ أَقبَلَت

لَما سَلَكَت سَهلاً إِلَيهِ وَلا صَعبا

لَما سَلَكَت سَهلاً إِلَيهِ وَلا صَعبا

And had I embraced him, and it then approached,

And if I embraced him and then turned to him

It would have taken no path to him, easy or hard.

I would have taken neither an easy nor a difficult route to him

وَلَو أَنصَفَت بَدرَ السَماءِ سَماؤُهُ

وَلَو أَنصَفَت بَدرَ السَماءِ سَماؤُهُ

لَقَد بَعَثَت عُوّادَهُ الأَنجُمَ الشُهبا

لَقَد بَعَثَت عُوّادَهُ الأَنجُمَ الشُهبا

And had his sky dealt fairly with the full moon of heaven,

And if the sky matched its full moon to his face

It would surely have sent the gleaming stars as his sickbed visitors.

It would have sent the shooting stars to visit him as sympathizers