إعلم يا خلّي

أنَّ خصالي رشفَ المصالي

Know, my friend

That my traits are noble traits

قد جار حبي وأسلوب نصالي

واقطع وصالي

My love and my sword's style have prevailed

And I've cut off my connection

لا زال عشقي على اتصال

بلا انفصال

Yet my love remains connected

Without separation

الصبر عنده جعلت نائب على المصائب

فما سقوني حتى رجعت للّه تائب

I've made patience my deputy for afflictions

So they did not make me drink until I repented to God

لقد حلالي خمير كاسي

والغصنُ آسي

Indeed, my conditions have fermented my cup

And the branch is sorrowful

وفي حفيره بِشربٍ كاس

طابت أنفاسي

And in a dugout, with a drink in a cup

My breath was perfumed

وذكّرتني فصِرتُ ناسٍ

أهلي وناسي

And it reminded me, so I became forgetful

Of my family and people

بت أوطاني واشتريت دار الحبائب

فما سقوني حتى رجعت للّه تائب

I remained from my homelands and bought the home of loved ones

So they did not make me drink until I repented to God

قد زوّجوني بنت الدوالي

وهيَ الدوالي

They have married me to the daughter of rulers

And she is the ruler

وقد تركتُ أمّ الهوالي

بلا هوى لي

And I have left the mother of passions

Without passion for me

وإن قل الناس

بهالي فلا أُبالي

And if people say about me

I do not care

فإن أطَعتُ وإن عصيتُ فاللَهُ رقب

فما سقوني حتى رجعت للّه تائب

For if I obey or disobey, God watches over me

So they did not make me drink until I repented to God

لقد وقفت على حدود

تلكَ الحدودِ

Indeed, I stood at the limits

Of those limits

وقد لزِمتُ سهر القعود

ونفرَ عودي

And I persisted staying up nights

And my lute sounded sadly

فما انعِدام ولا الوجود

بين الوجود

So there is no extinction or existence

Between existence

وأين أثني وأين كنتُ حاضر وغائب

فما سقوني حتى رجعت للّه تائب

And where can I praise and where was I present and absent?

So they did not make me drink until I repented to God