1. بهواكَ إِذ قالَ الهوى

    لجوارحي بِهَواهُ ذوبي

    By love for you, when Love said

    to my limbs, “Melt with love for him,

  2. ثمَّ اجْهدي أَنْ تحسني

    فإِذا أَسأْتِ فلا تتوبي

    then strive to do good;

    and if you do wrong, do not repent.”

  3. قالت فبِالوَجْدِ الَّذي

    أَذْهبتهُ بدمِ القلوبِ

    They said, “Then by the passion that

    you dispelled with the blood of hearts,

  4. وبِقلَّة الصَّبر البري

    ءِ وكثرة الشوقِ المريبِ

    and by the scarcity of innocent patience,

    and the abundance of disquieting longing,

  5. أَلِأَيِّ شيءٍ قلتَ لِلش

    شَكوى وقد خرسَتْ أَجيبي

    for what reason did you say to

    complaint, though it had fallen mute, ‘Answer’?”