إِذا جَوَارِيكَ غنّوا

إِذا جَوَارِيكَ غنّوا

فَاطْرَحْ علينا دِثارا

فَاطْرَحْ علينا دِثارا

When your slave girls sing,

When your slave girls sing

then throw a cloak over us.

Throw a cloak over us

وارَيتَهُمْ وَحَقِيقٌ

وارَيتَهُمْ وَحَقِيقٌ

لِقُبْحِهُمُ أنْ يُوَارَى

لِقُبْحِهُمُ أنْ يُوَارَى

You have concealed them, and it is fitting

And I saw them as they are

for their ugliness to be concealed.

It's fitting, for their ugliness, that they be concealed

قَدْ قُلْتُ إِذْ قال صَحْبي

قَدْ قُلْتُ إِذْ قال صَحْبي

لِمْ يَضْرِبُونَ سِتارا

لِمْ يَضْرِبُونَ سِتارا

Indeed, I said when my companions asked,

I said, when my friends asked

“Why do they put up a curtain?”

Why is a curtain placed?

لَوِ اطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ

لَوِ اطَّلَعْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ

وَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرارا

وَلَّيْتَ مِنْهُمْ فِرارا

“If you caught sight of them,

Had you looked upon them

you would turn away from them in flight.”

You'd have fled from them in haste