مَا هَب مِنْ نخوكُمْ نَسِيمُ صَبَا

إِلاَّ وَأَذْكَى بمُهْجَتِي لَهَبا

The breeze of your love has blown,

Igniting in my heart a flame.

وَلاَ شَدَا مُطْربٌ بذِكْرِكُمْ

إلاَّ وَنَادَى المَشُوُقُ واطرَبا

No minstrel sings in your name,

Without longing overflowing unrestrained.

وَلاَ تَذكُرْتُ عِيشَةَ سَلفَتْ

بالخِيفِ إلاَّ وَقلْتُ وَا حَرَبا

Remembering days gone by with you,

I cry "Alas for youth now enchained!"

لا نَالَ مِنْكَ المَشُوُقُ بُغْيَتَهُ

إِنْ كان يَوْماً إلى سِوَاكَ صَبَا

The lover cannot gain his desire,

If but a day he sought another's domain.

يَا حَبْذا لَوْعَتي عَليْكَ وَيَا

بُشْرَاىَ إنْ مُتُّ فِيكَ مُكْتَئِبا

How wonderful to pine for you,

To die while still with longing remained.

أحْبَابَنا هَلْ بقُرْبِكُمْ أَمَلُ

أَمْ هَلْ بوَصْلِكُمُ أَرَى سَبَبا

Friends, is hope near where you are?

Or means to attain you ascertained?

آهاً لأَيَّامِنَا بقُرْبكُمُ

وطِيبِ عَيْشٍ بِوَصْلِكُمْ ذهَبا

Alas, for our days in your company,

And life made sweet by you we disdained.

يَا سَائقَ العِيسِ نَحْوَ كاظِمَةٍ

أَبْلغْ سَلامِي لِنَازِليِنَ قَبا

O rider to Kadhimah bound,

Convey my greetings to dwellers on that plain.

وقلْ قضَى ذلِكَ المَشُوُقُ بِكُمْ

وَمَا قضَى مِنْ وصَالِكُمْ أَرَبا

Say that the longing one has had his fill,

Though never enough of your presence he gained.