Sol 6.1

  1. بِنَفْسِيَ من فارقتُ فِيه تَمَاسُكِي

    كَما أَنَّني وَاصَلْتُ فيه تَمسُّكِي

    My life be ransom for the one for whom I lost my composure,

    even as I kept clinging to him;

  2. وَمَنْ وَصْلُهُ الصُّبْحُ الذي هو مُرشِدِي

    كما هَجْرُهُ الليلُ الذي هُوَ مُدْرِكِي

    and him whose union is the dawn that guides me,

    just as his estrangement is the night that overtakes me;

  3. ومَنْ لَمْ أَزَلْ أَشتاقُ من حُسْنِ وَجْهِه

    إِلى مَطْلَبٍ من دُونِهِ أَلْفُ مُهْلِكِ

    and him whose face's beauty has kept me ever yearning

    for a goal with a thousand deadly perils before it.

  4. ومِنْ كل مُسْلٍ أَو مُسَكِّنِ لَوْعَةٍ

    بِهِ لي إِليه مُذْكِرِي أَوْ مُحرّكِي

    And from every comforter or soother of the anguish

    I feel for him comes a reminder of him or a spur toward him.

  5. وإِنِّي عَلَى ما ذُقْتُ من أَلَم الهَوَى

    وقاسَيْتُ مِنْه كُلَ مُبْكٍ وَمُضْحِكِ

    And indeed, despite the pain of love I have tasted

    and all I have endured from it that brings tears and laughter,

  6. لِيَحْسُنُ إِلاَّ في حبيبي تصوُّنِي

    ويَقْبُحُ إِلاَّ في حَبِيبي تهتُّكِي

    my restraint is seemly, except with my beloved,

    and my abandon is unseemly, except with my beloved.

  7. وأَعظمُ دائِي أَنَّني لستُ أَشْتَفِي

    وأَيْسَرُ صَبْرِي أَنَّني لسْتُ أَشْتكِي

    And the worst of my affliction is that I find no cure,

    and the least of my endurance is that I do not complain.

  8. تشكَّكتُ في وَصْلٍ تيقنت ضِدَّهُ

    فأَصْبَحَ أَحْلَى من يَقِيني تَشَكُكِي

    I doubted union, though certain of its opposite;

    so my doubt became sweeter than my certainty.

  9. فأُخْلِدْتُ ظُلْماً في جهَنَّمِ صَدِّهِ

    وما كنتُ يوماً في هَوَاهُ بِمُشْرِكِ

    So I was unjustly made to dwell forever in the hell of his rejection,

    though never once had I given him a partner in my love.