1. أهلَ الغرامِ تجمّعوا

    وَتَوَسّلوا وَتَضَرّعوا

    O people of ardent love, gather together,

    And seek intercession, and plead humbly.

  2. دُقوا لأبوابِ الإجا

    بة بالدُّعاءِ لتُسمَعوا

    Knock at the doors of res—

    —ponse with prayer, that you may be heard.

  3. موتوا تَعيشوا في الهوى

    وتمزَّقوا وَتَقَطَعوا

    Die, and you shall live in love;

    And be torn apart, and cut to pieces.

  4. وَخذوا حديثَ مُتَيّسمٍ

    عَمّنْ سِواهُ أو دَعوا

    And take the tale of a lovesick man

    From someone other than him—or leave it.

  5. صَبُّ سماءٌ دُموعِه

    من صَبّها لا تُقلِعُ

    A lovesick man: the sky of his tears

    Never ceases its downpour.

  6. لم يبقَ إلاّ أعظمٌ

    منْ جِسمهِ تَتَقَعْقَعْ

    Nothing remains but bones

    Of his body, rattling.

  7. وادي العقيقِ بِجَفْنهِ

    والدَّمعُ منهُ ينبعُ

    The valley of al-Aqiq is in his eyelid,

    And tears well up from it.

  8. يا لائمي ما في فؤا

    دي لِلمَلامةِ مَوْضعُ

    O my reproacher, there is not in my hea—

    —rt any room for reproach.

  9. ما في سُلُوِّيْ لاولا

    في فَضْلِ حُبّي مَطْمَعُ

    There is no hope of my forgetting love—no, nor

    Of any increase in my love.

  10. إنَّ المتّيمَ مَنْ إذا

    هَجَعَ الورى لا يهجَعُ

    Indeed, the enthralled lover is one who, when

    People sleep, does not sleep.