ما ضرّ من ملك فؤادى بأسره

ما ضرّ من ملك فؤادى بأسره

لو لم يضع بعض الجميل بهجره

لو لم يضع بعض الجميل بهجره

What harm would it do the one who owns my whole heart

It does no harm if the one who owns my heart

if he did not squander some of his kindness by forsaking me?

Turns away for a time and abandons his affection,

فيضم شمل جميله وجماله

فيضم شمل جميله وجماله

ويجوز حب محبه مع أجره

ويجوز حب محبه مع أجره

He would thus unite his kindness and his beauty,

Then restores his beautiful union and grace,

and his lover's love would be permissible, along with its reward.

And allows his lover's devotion with reward.

مالي أبوئه الفؤاد جميعه

مالي أبوئه الفؤاد جميعه

ويطيره بصدوده من وكره

ويطيره بصدوده من وكره

Why do I make my entire heart his dwelling,

Why should I complain of him entirely,

while his rejection sends it flying from its nest?

When he startles my heart and drives it from its lair,

بدر له في كل قلب منزل

بدر له في كل قلب منزل

متحجب من عزه عن سرّه

متحجب من عزه عن سرّه

A full moon, he has a dwelling in every heart,

He has a full moon in every heart,

veiled by his majesty from its secret depths.

Veiled from his glory, hidden from his secret.

يا ليته اذ كان قلبى بيته

يا ليته اذ كان قلبى بيته

لو كان يبرد بالرضا من حره

لو كان يبرد بالرضا من حره

Oh, would that, since my heart was his home,

Oh, if only when my heart became his home,

he would cool some of its heat with his favor!

He would be pleased and quench its burning thirst,

لم أسمه بالشمس حيث طلوعه

لم أسمه بالشمس حيث طلوعه

ما كان الا في دجنه شعره

ما كان الا في دجنه شعره

I did not call him the sun, since his rising

I would not name him the sun in his rising,

was only in the darkness of his hair.

But rather the full moon in its gentle light.

منح الغزال ملاحة من لحظه

منح الغزال ملاحة من لحظه

وكسا الغزالة خلعة من بشره

وكسا الغزالة خلعة من بشره

He bestowed grace on the gazelle from his glance,

He gave the gazelle a glance of coquetry,

and clothed the sun in a robe of his smiling radiance.

And clothed the lovely gazelle in his radiance,

وأقام في قلبي وأوقد ناره

وأقام في قلبي وأوقد ناره

فيه ورد فقيره عن برّه

فيه ورد فقيره عن برّه

He dwelt in my heart and kindled his fire

He stayed in my heart and lit his fire,

there, and turned his needy supplicant away from his bounty.

While the roses pleaded in vain for his care.

تدعو محاسنه ويزجر صده

تدعو محاسنه ويزجر صده

قد حرت فى اذن الحبيب وزجره

قد حرت فى اذن الحبيب وزجره

His charms beckon, while his rejection repels;

Beautiful traits plead while he spurns them,

I am bewildered between the beloved's consent and his rebuff.

Bewildered, they cry out to the beloved in censure,

يممت خيرا من وصال جماله

يممت خيرا من وصال جماله

ويزيد العذول بسره

ويزيد العذول بسره

I sought something better than union with his beauty,

I wanted more of his beautiful union,

and the reproacher adds more with his secret.

But his disdain only increased his mystery

يا عاذلي ما أنت إلا مذنب

يا عاذلي ما أنت إلا مذنب

لكن أتيت بشافع من ذكره

لكن أتيت بشافع من ذكره

O my reproacher, you are nothing but a sinner,

Oh critic, you have done no wrong but come,

yet you brought an intercessor by mentioning him.

With a reminder of him as intercessor.