1. طال المدى في خطة الأعراض

    فهي الجواهر مظهر الأعراض

    This course of aversion has lasted too long.

    For substances are the locus of accidents.

  2. مهلا فديتك لا يناسبنا الخنا

    إنا لقوم طاهرو الأعراض

    Gently, may I be your ransom: foul speech does not befit us.

    Indeed, we are a people unsullied in honor.

  3. قل لا أبلت فيك أفئدة لنا

    مذ دلنا الإبلال عن أمراض

    Say: may our hearts never be cured of you,

    since recovery led us away from ailments.

  4. فتش على ودي فؤادك تلقه

    طللا هنالك قف على الأنقاض

    Search your heart for my love; you will find it

    a ruin there; stand over the rubble.

  5. واذكر خليلك في الطلول لعله

    يحيي بذكرك واغل في الأرباض

    And remember your intimate friend among the ruins; perhaps he

    will revive through your remembrance, an intruder in the outskirts.

  6. وانشد به أثرا لعلك تهتدي

    إن جزت في ظلماتها ببياض

    And seek a trace within it; perhaps you will find your way,

    if you traverse its darkness with a gleam of white.

  7. وانظر لشخصي فهو فيه يتيمة

    كالبرق تومض أيما إيماض

    And behold my person: within it, he is a matchless pearl,

    flashing like lightning—what a flash!

  8. وامدد له كف الرجا عطفا على

    إخلاصه واسعفه باستنهاض

    And extend to him the hand of hope, in compassion for

    his sincerity, and aid him by rousing him.

  9. واسبر به قلبا فريت أديمه

    وعليك فاخلع برقع الأغراض

    And probe with it a heart whose skin you have rent;

    and for your part, remove the veil of ulterior motives.

  10. حقق جريمته بدون تحامل

    واحكم عليه فان حكمك ماض

    Investigate its crime without prejudice,

    and judge it, for your verdict is binding.

  11. لا زال جرحه من صدودك داميا

    مذ كان فيكم بادي الإنفاض

    Its wound still bleeds from your aversion,

    ever since its destitution became plain among you.

  12. عهدي به والفارضي يمده

    في العاشقين بنوره الفياض

    I remember it, with al-Faridi sustaining it

    among the lovers with his overflowing light.

  13. ما كان يجنح مذ تفتح جفنه

    من بعد ما صديت للأغماض

    It never inclined, since its eyelid opened,

    after you turned away, to closing its eyes.

  14. لو كان شرع الود موليه القضا

    لرايته بين القضاة عياضي

    If the law of affection entrusted it with judgeship,

    you would see it as an Iyadi among the judges.

  15. ما بالكم والظن غثم بعضه

    متسارعين اليوم في استجهاضي

    What ails you—when some suspicion is ignorance—

    that you rush today to drive me out?

  16. سلق الوفي بعهده منك الحسو

    د تشفيا بلسانه النضناض

    The envier from your side lashed the one faithful to his pledge,

    to gratify his spite, with his darting tongue.

  17. فغدوتما وهو المسالم تقرضا

    نه في الأنام بشرفتي مقراض

    So you two, though he was peaceable, began cutting

    at him among the people with the two edges of shears.

  18. والعدل في السبع السماوات التي

    خلق المهيمن مثلهن أراض

    And justice in the seven heavens, whose like

    the Guardian created as earths—

  19. ضربت عليه قبلنا الأجيال في

    عرض البلاد فجف قبل مخاض

    generations before us beat upon it across

    the breadth of the land, so it dried up before travail.

  20. ما راضه بعد الرسول محمد

    والصحب والأتباع من رواض

    None tamed it after the Messenger Muhammad

    and the Companions and followers—not a single tamer.

  21. فوق سهامك نحو من لك في حشا

    ه كنانة من درعه الفضفاض

    Nock your arrows at one who has for you, within his breast,

    a quiver made from his ample coat of mail.

  22. فلك التجري ما استطعت علي ما

    دام الوداد ولي عليك تغاض

    You may be as bold toward me as you can, so long as

    affection endures; I will overlook your faults.

  23. روضي ربيع لا خريف لطقسه

    شتان بين رياضكم ورياضي

    My garden is springtime; its climate has no autumn.

    How far apart are your gardens and mine!

  24. غيث المودة هاطل فاذا حيت

    فاعلم بأن الماء من أحواضي

    The rain of affection pours; so if they revive,

    know that the water comes from my pools.

  25. يضطرك الإعواز في التفتيش عن

    مثلي صديقا غاضبا أو راضي

    Scarcity compels you to search for

    a friend like me, angry or content.

  26. ربط الفؤادين اعتقاد راسخ

    ينأى ارتفاعهما على استخفاض

    A firm conviction bound the two hearts;

    their loftiness stands far above abasement.

  27. كل لضوه جوهر فرد فلا

    يبلى بتجزئة ولا استبعاض

    Each is an indivisible substance to its counterpart, and so does not

    wear out through division or partition.

  28. قصر عن الإحجاف بي غلطا فقد

    طال المدى في خطة الأعراض

    Desist from wronging me in error, for

    this course of aversion has lasted too long.