خليلي إِن القلب عاد إلى السلوى

ومذ كنت كان الحب ايسره البلوى

My two friends, the heart has indeed returned to consolation.

And since you came to be, love's easiest part has been affliction.

يريك الرضا وجهي وقلبيَ ساخط

تحمَّل مالا فيك يحمله رضوى

My face shows you contentment, while my heart is angry;

It has borne on your account what Mount Raḍwā cannot bear.

اظنُّك لما قد بلوت قوائمي

توهمتني نضواً فحملتني اللأوا

I think that, when you had tested my legs,

You took me for a spent camel and burdened me with hardship.

وهبنيَ نضواً دأبه السَّير والسرى

فما عجب نضو بديمومة خوَّى

And grant that I am a spent camel, accustomed to travel by day and night:

So it is no wonder that a spent camel knelt in a trackless desert.

اراك على صفح فأصفح معرضاً

وقد كان لي قلب على الصفح لا يقوى

I see you turning away, so I turn away, averting my face,

Though once I had a heart unable to turn away.

اعدّي عن العتبى وفي الضمن عاتب

وقد تعقب العتبى التي توجب العدوى

I forgo seeking amends, though inwardly reproachful,

And seeking amends may bring on what breeds enmity.

وما حسنٌ اشكو وانت شكيتي

ولو كنت تصغي لي ذكرت لك الشكوى

It is not seemly that I complain when you are my grievance;

Were you to listen to me, I would tell you my complaint.

وانت الذي قد خامر الحب قلبه

فكيف اذاً قد كنت لو لم تكن تهوى

And you are the one whose heart love has permeated;

So how would you have been, then, had you not loved?

لك اللَه كم اطوي وانشر لوعة

فما برحت في القلب تنشر أو تطوى

God be with you! How often I fold away and unfold a burning pang;

So within the heart it never ceases to be unfolded or folded away.

فيا كوكباً قد زيَّن الارض نوره

ويا قمراً قد زان افق السما الجلوى

So, O star whose light has adorned the earth,

And O moon that has adorned the horizon of the radiant sky,

ويا راحة العاني ويا مجلب العنا

ويا مقصي الداني ويا جنة المأوى

And O comfort of the captive, O bringer of suffering,

And O banisher of those drawing near, O Garden of Refuge,

لحسبك في سري ونجواي عالماً

وحسبي ربي عالم السر والنجوى

Surely it is enough for you to know my secret and my whispers,

And my Lord suffices me, the Knower of secrets and whispers.

ابي العدل تقضي من لوى بن غالب

فتى بالغ في حبه الغاية القصوى

Justice forbids you to condemn one of Luʾayy ibn Ghālib's line—

A youth who has reached the furthest limit in his love.

مضت بك ايام صفت ليَ بالصفا

ومرَّت ليالٍ قد حلت بك في المروا

Days passed with you, serene for me at al-Ṣafā,

And nights passed, grown sweet with you at al-Marwā.

فردَّ عناني عن هوىً لك كاذب

الى صادق في وده رشا أحوى

So turn my reins away from your false love,

Toward one sincere in his affection—a dusky gazelle fawn.

والا سألوي عن ودادك راغباً

وكم صاحب عن صاحبٍ جائر الوى

Otherwise, I shall turn away from your affection, rejecting it;

And how many a companion has turned from an unjust companion!

فدعني اروي من دموعيَ او فدع

اروّي بها الوادي بمعتلجي اروى

Then let me drink my fill of my tears, or let

Me water the valley with them, at Arwā's twin dunes.