1. هَلْ للعَزا مِنْ سَبِيلْ

    هَلْ يَشْتَفي السُّقْمُ

    Is there any path to solace?

    Can sickness find a cure?

  2. حَسْبِيَ يأْسٌ مُرِيحْ

    قَد ضاقَ بِي الكَتْمُ

    A soothing despair is enough for me;

    I can no longer bear concealment.

  3. الغَوْثُ مِنْ ذا الهَوى

    فُلَّ بِهِ عَزْمي

    Help against this passion!

    It has shattered my resolve.

  4. قد هَدَّ مِنِّي القُوى

    وقَد مَحا رسمي

    It has broken the strength within me

    and effaced all trace of me.

  5. يا رَبّ هذا الجوى

    لَمْ يَكُ في عِلْمِي

    O Lord, this burning anguish

    was unknown to me.

  6. وأنت نعم المقيلْ

    وحكمك الحكمُ

    And You are the finest pardoner,

    and Your judgment is supreme.

  7. أجر فؤاداً قَريحْ

    قَدْ خانَهُ الزَّعْمُ

    Grant refuge to a wounded heart

    betrayed by its assumptions.

  8. لِسُوءِ حَالي ومَا

    أدراكَ ما حالي

    At my wretched plight—and what

    could tell you what my plight is?—

  9. بَكى خَلِيلي دما

    ورَقَّ عُذَّالي

    my close friend has wept blood,

    and my reproachers have grown tender.

  10. لَمْ يأْنِ أن تَرْحما

    يا خاليَ البال

    Is it not time for you to show mercy,

    O you whose mind is at ease?

  11. جُدْ بالرِّضى يا بَخيلْ

    مَطْلُ الغَنِيْ ظُلْمُ

    Be generous with your favor, O miser!

    A rich man's delay in paying is injustice.

  12. لَمْ تَدْر أنَّ النَّصيحْ

    سَماعُهُ إثْمُ

    Did you not know that the counselor's

    words are a sin to heed?

  13. عَصيتُ فِيْكَ المَلامْ

    ودِنْتُ بالوجْدِ

    I defied reproach for your sake

    and made passionate longing my creed.

  14. وقَدْ هَجَرْتُ المَنامْ

    ولُذْتُ بالسُّهْدِ

    And I have forsaken sleep

    and sought refuge in sleeplessness.

  15. فَهَلْ يُفيد الغَرامْ

    لَدَيْكَ أو يُجْدِي

    Does passion, then, avail

    with you, or bring any good?

  16. قَد حارَ فِيكَ الدَّليلْ

    وضَلَّ بِي الحِلْمُ

    The guide has grown bewildered by you,

    and reason has lost its way within me.

  17. لا قَلْبَ لي مُسْتَرِيحْ

    كلّا ولا جِسْمُ

    My heart has no rest—

    no, nor does my body.

  18. لو بِسِوى الأعْيُنِ

    فُتِنْتَ يا قَلْبِي

    Had it been by anything but eyes

    that you were enchanted, O my heart,

  19. رَجوتُ أن تَنْثَني

    مُفَرَّجَ الكربِ

    I would have hoped you might turn back,

    relieved of distress.

  20. يَئِستُ لكِنَّني

    أدعوكَ يا ربِّي

    I have despaired, yet I

    call upon You, O my Lord,

  21. دُعاءَ صَبٍّ ذَليلْ

    أسْلَمَهُ الجرمُ

    with the prayer of a humbled, lovelorn man

    whom sin has left helpless.

  22. فالوُدُّ مِنهُ صَحيحْ

    وفي الحَشا كَلْمُ

    For his love is true,

    and in his breast lies a wound.

  23. تشْنِيعُ هذا الرَّقيبْ

    ربّ ادْفَعَنْ شرَّهْ

    This watcher's slander—

    Lord, ward off his evil!

  24. أبصرَهُ مستريبْ

    بوجههِ حُمْرَهْ

    A suspicious man saw him,

    with redness on his face;

  25. فَظَنّه قد أُصيبْ

    وقَدْ شَدا جَهْرَهْ

    so he thought him wounded,

    and sang aloud:

  26. صُبَيْ جُرِحْ فَالنَّخيلْ

    رَشّ الحَبق دمُّ

    "A little boy was wounded among the palms;

    his blood spattered the basil.

  27. بالله يا طَيْراً مَليحْ

    قُلَ الخَبَرْ لأُمُّ

    By God, O lovely bird,

    tell his mother the news."