لي حَبيبٌ يَزيدُ في كُلِّ يومٍ

لي حَبيبٌ يَزيدُ في كُلِّ يومٍ

حُبُّهُ مِثلَما يَزيدُ الهِلالُ

حُبُّهُ مِثلَما يَزيدُ الهِلالُ

I have a beloved; day by day grows

I have a lover who grows dearer day by day

my love for him, as the crescent moon grows.

His love increases even as the crescent moon

كَثُرَ الحاسِدونَ يَالَغَرامي

كَثُرَ الحاسِدونَ يَالَغَرامي

في هَواهُ وَقَلَّتِ العُذّالُ

في هَواهُ وَقَلَّتِ العُذّالُ

The envious have grown many—alas for my passion!—

Many envious ones blame my passion, alas

in my love for him, while the reproachers have grown few.

For him, while the chiders are few

قَد أَظَلَّ الوُفودَ وَهُوَ صَباحٌ

قَد أَظَلَّ الوُفودَ وَهُوَ صَباحٌ

وَأَذَلَّ الأُسودَ وَهُوَ غَزالُ

وَأَذَلَّ الأُسودَ وَهُوَ غَزالُ

He has cast shade over the delegations, though he is morning,

He has outshone the radiant dawn, yet he is a fawn

and humbled lions, though he is a gazelle.

He has humbled the lions, yet he is a gazelle

فَقَريبانِ هَجرُهُ وَالتَنائي

فَقَريبانِ هَجرُهُ وَالتَنائي

وَبَعيدانِ سَلوَتي وَالوِصالُ

وَبَعيدانِ سَلوَتي وَالوِصالُ

So near are his abandonment and separation,

Soon we shall part and cease to meet

and far off are my forgetting him and union with him.

While still remote are my joy and union with him

فَوَحَقِّ الإِلَهِ إِنّي لِعَينٍ

فَوَحَقِّ الإِلَهِ إِنّي لِعَينٍ

أَسهَرَتني عَينُ وَباءٍ وَدالُ

أَسهَرَتني عَينُ وَباءٍ وَدالُ

So, by God's truth, I am, to an eye

By God, because of an eye

that has kept me awake, ʿayn–bāʾ–dāl: a slave.

That has deprived me of sleep, tender and languorous