فَدَيناكَ أَهدى الناسِ سَهماً إِلى قَلبي

فَدَيناكَ أَهدى الناسِ سَهماً إِلى قَلبي

وَأَقتَلَهُم لِلدارِعينَ بِلا حَربِ

وَأَقتَلَهُم لِلدارِعينَ بِلا حَربِ

May we be your ransom, surest of all in aiming an arrow at my heart,

You gifted the best of men an arrow into my heart

May I be your ransom, O surest of archers to my heart,

And deadliest of them to those in armor, without a battle.

And I would kill them for the unarmed with no war

Most lethal to the armored knights without a single war.

تَفَرَّدَ بِالأَحكامِ في أَهلِهِ الهَوى

تَفَرَّدَ بِالأَحكامِ في أَهلِهِ الهَوى

فَأَنتَ جَميلُ الخُلفِ مُستَحسَنُ الكِذبِ

فَأَنتَ جَميلُ الخُلفِ مُستَحسَنُ الكِذبِ

Love alone passes judgment among its devotees;

Passion dominated its people with judgments

Passion holds sole dominion in its judgments o'er its kin,

So your broken promises are beautiful, your lies admired.

So you are beautiful in ancestry and good at lying

So you are fair in broken vows, and beautiful in lies.

وَإِنّي لَمَمنوعُ المَقاتِلِ في الوَغى

وَإِنّي لَمَمنوعُ المَقاتِلِ في الوَغى

وَإِن كُنتُ مَبذولَ المَقاتِلِ في الحُبِّ

وَإِن كُنتُ مَبذولَ المَقاتِلِ في الحُبِّ

And indeed my vital spots are protected in battle,

And I am prevented from fighting in battle

For though my vital spots are guarded in the heat of battle,

Though my vital spots lie exposed in love.

And if I am given over to fighting in love

I leave them defenseless and exposed when in the throes of love.

وَمَن خُلِقَت عَيناكَ بَينَ جُفونِهِ

وَمَن خُلِقَت عَيناكَ بَينَ جُفونِهِ

أَصابَ الحُدورَ السَهلَ في المُرتَقى الصَعبِ

أَصابَ الحُدورَ السَهلَ في المُرتَقى الصَعبِ

And he between whose eyelids your eyes were fashioned

And your eyes were created between their lids

And he within whose eyelids those eyes of yours were formed,

Has found an easy descent in a difficult ascent.

They attained the sublime heights in the difficult ascent

Has found the rugged, steep ascent as easy as a slope.