أَلا إِنَّ أَلحاَظاً بِقَلبي عَوابِثا
أَظُنُّ بِها هاروت أَصبح نافِثا
Behold—glances are playing havoc with my heart;
I think that through them Hārūt has begun to breathe his spells.
إِذا رامَ ذو وَجدٍ سُلواً مَنَعتَهُ
وَكُنَّ عَلى دِينِ التَصابي بَواعِثا
Whenever a lovesick soul seeks forgetfulness, they deny it him,
and stir him to embrace the creed of youthful passion.
وَقَيَّدنَ مَن أَضحى عَن الحُب مُطلَقاً
وَأَسرَعنَ لِلبَلوى بِمَن كانَ رائِثا
They fetter whoever had become free of love,
and hasten tribulation upon whoever had been slow to come.
بِروحي رَشاً مِن آل خاقان راحِلٌ
وَإِن كانَ ما بَينَ الجَوانِحِ لابِثا
My soul be ransom for a fawn of the House of Khāqān, departing—
though he remains lodged here within my breast.
غَدا وَاحِداً في الحُسنِ لِلفَضل ثانِيا
وَللبدر وَالشَمس المُنيرةِ ثالِثا
In beauty he became one of a kind, second only to al-Faḍl,
and third beside the full moon and the radiant sun.
Sol 5.6