1. هَذا الحِجازُ وَذاك ضاله

    قَد قُلِّصت عنه ظِلالُه

    This is the Hijaz, and those are its wild lote trees;

    their shade has been drawn back from it.

  2. ماذا بكاءُ المستها

    م برقمتيه وما سؤاله

    What use is the weeping of the lovesick one

    at its two Raqmahs, and what use his questioning?

  3. إن كانَ أَطمعه الحمى

    فاليوم تؤيسُه رمالُه

    If the guarded pasture once gave him hope,

    today its sands drive him to despair.

  4. قَد بانَ عنه جَمالُه

    وتحمَّلت منه جِماله

    Its beauty has departed from it,

    and its camels have journeyed away.

  5. أَينَ المعاهد والعهو

    د وأَين من مال اِعتدالُه

    Where are the familiar haunts and the pledges,

    and where is he whose upright figure swayed?

  6. لَهفي على الرشأ الَّذي

    قد أَفلتت منّي حباله

    My anguish for the fawn whose

    tethers have slipped from my grasp!

  7. يَصفو وَيكدر حبُّهُ

    فالحبُّ أَكدرُه ملالُه

    His love grows clear and then grows turbid;

    for love's murkiest part is his weariness.

  8. ما إن حلا لي وعدُه

    إلّا ومرَّره مطاله

    Never did his promise taste sweet to me

    without his delays turning it bitter.

  9. منع الكرى عَن ناظري

    كيلا يُلمَّ بنا خيالُه

    He banished slumber from my eye,

    lest his phantom visit us.

  10. لَو أَنَّ ما بي من هوا

    هُ بيذبلٍ ذابت قِلالُه

    If the love within me for

    him were in Yadhbul, its peaks would melt.

  11. يا ويحَ قَلب قد تفر

    رغَ في هواه به اِشتغاله

    Alas for a heart so wholly

    absorbed in him and in his love!

  12. حمَّلته ما لم يُطق

    واليوم قد قلَّ اِحتمالُه

    I burdened it with what it could not bear,

    and today its endurance has dwindled.

  13. وَلكلِّ خَطبٍ حيلةٌ

    والبينُ قل لي ما اِحتيالُه

    And every calamity has a remedy;

    but separation—tell me, what remedy has it?

  14. ماذا عَسى يُجدي مَقا

    لي إن شكوت بما أَناله

    What good might my words do

    if I complained of what I endure?

  15. قد طالَ عَتبي للزَما

    نِ فَهَل تَرى خفَّت ثقاله

    Long has my reproach of Time continued;

    so have its heavy burdens lightened, do you think?

  16. نعم اِلتجأت بمن أَذل

    ل الدهرَ إرهاباً جلالُه

    Yes, I sought refuge in one who humbled

    Time through his awe-inspiring majesty.

  17. فاليَوم لا أَخشى الزَما

    نَ وملجئي يُخشى صِيالُه

    So today I do not fear Time,

    for my protector's onslaught is feared.

  18. مَولىً به نلتُ المنى

    وَقَضى لي الآمالَ مالُه

    A lord through whom I attained my wishes,

    and whose wealth fulfilled my hopes.

  19. وسِعَ الورى إِفضالُه

    فَغَدا يعمُّهمُ نوالُه

    His generosity encompassed humankind,

    and so his bounty came to reach them all.

  20. إِن رامَ نالَ وإن يقُل

    فالقَولُ يتبعُه فِعالُه

    If he seeks, he attains; and if he speaks,

    his deeds follow his words.

  21. ليثٌ بهولُكَ صولُه

    غَيثٌ يَروقُ لك اِنهلالُه

    A lion whose charge strikes you with dread,

    life-giving rain whose downpour delights you.

  22. طابَت مغارسُهُ وأَو

    رق عودُه وزكت خِلالُه

    Good were his planting grounds, and

    his stem put forth leaves, and his virtues flourished.

  23. يا أَيُّها المولى الَّذي

    قد أَكملَ العَليا كمالُه

    O lord, whose

    perfection has perfected the heights of honor!

  24. وَبه زَها روضُ العُلى

    وَالمَجدُ قد صحَّ اِعتلالُه

    And through him the garden of eminence bloomed,

    and glory recovered from its ailment.

  25. إِنّي بعفوِكَ واثِقٌ

    وَالعَفوُ أَكرمُه مُذالُه

    I am confident of your pardon;

    and pardon is noblest when freely bestowed.

  26. فأَقِل عِثاري إِن عثر

    ت ولا تقل ظهرَ اِختلالُه

    So overlook my stumbling, if I stumble,

    and do not say, 'His failing has come to light.'

  27. فلأَنتَ أَكرمُ من رجو

    تُ وَخيرُ من كرُمت خِصالُه

    For you are the noblest one I have set my hopes upon,

    and the best of those whose qualities are noble.

  28. كَم نائِلٍ أَوليتَني

    هِ وَساغَ لي عَذباً زُلالُه

    How many a gift you have bestowed on me,

    and its limpid water went down sweetly for me!

  29. بوّأتَني المَجدَ المؤَث

    ثَل عندَما مُدّت ظِلالُه

    You lodged me in deep-rooted glory,

    when its shades were spread abroad,

  30. حتّى غدوتَ وأَنتَ بَد

    رُ سمائه وأَنا هلالُه

    until you became the full moon

    of its sky, and I its crescent.

  31. فاِسلم ودُم متبوِّئاً

    مَجداً سَما عِزّاً منالُه

    So fare well, and remain enthroned

    in glory whose attainment rises high in honor.