لَو لَم أَخَف أَمرَ عَواديكُمُ

لَو لَم أَخَف أَمرَ عَواديكُمُ

لَزُرتُ إِذ أَمرَعَ واديكُمُ

لَزُرتُ إِذ أَمرَعَ واديكُمُ

Had I not feared the prospect of your onslaughts,

Had I not feared the ways of your abodes

I would have visited when your valley grew lush.

I would have visited when the valley called

هَل في سَماحِ الدَهرِ لي أَنَّني

هَل في سَماحِ الدَهرِ لي أَنَّني

فيهِ أُناديكُم بِناديكُمُ

فيهِ أُناديكُم بِناديكُمُ

Will Time, in its generosity, allow me

Is there in the generosity of time for me that

to call to you one day in your gathering place?

I call you there by your dwellings?

أَزَحتُمُ الواشي بِإِعراضِكُم

أَزَحتُمُ الواشي بِإِعراضِكُم

عَنّي وَما أَتعَبَني فيكُمُ

عَنّي وَما أَتعَبَني فيكُمُ

You displaced the slanderer by turning away

You turned the passionate love away with your aloofness

from me; he did not weary me on your account.

from me and did not tire me of you

أَنتُم جَنَيتُم وَتَجَنَّيتُمُ

أَنتُم جَنَيتُم وَتَجَنَّيتُمُ

فَوا جُنوني مِن تَجَنّيكُمُ

فَوا جُنوني مِن تَجَنّيكُمُ

You yourselves did wrong and made false accusations;

You reaped and took precaution

so, alas for my madness at your false accusations!

So woe to my madness from your precaution

حَكَت مَغانيكُم أَلا لا خَلَت

حَكَت مَغانيكُم أَلا لا خَلَت

مِنكُم مَدى الدَهرِ مَغانيكُمُ

مِنكُم مَدى الدَهرِ مَغانيكُمُ

Your dwellings recounted—ah, may they never be empty

Your songs have related, verily, no love

of you through all time, those dwellings of yours—

lasted from you the ages of time, your songs

كَم آي تَوحيدٍ تَلا فيكُمُ

كَم آي تَوحيدٍ تَلا فيكُمُ

قَلبي وَأَعياني تَلافيكُمُ

قَلبي وَأَعياني تَلافيكُمُ

how many verses of oneness were recited about you

How many verses of oneness my heart recited in you

by my heart; and winning you back exhausted me.

and my eyes recited your glances

عَلَيكُمُ مِنّي سَلامٌ مَعَ ال

عَلَيكُمُ مِنّي سَلامٌ مَعَ ال

نَسيمِ يَسري فَيُوافيكُمُ

نَسيمِ يَسري فَيُوافيكُمُ

A greeting of peace to you from me, with the

Upon you from me is a greeting with the

breeze that travels by night and so reaches you.

breeze blowing by to reach you