خَلِيلَيَّ عُوجا حَيِّيا اليَومَ زَينَبا

وَلا تَترُكاني صاحِبَيَّ وَتَذهَبا

My two friends bend your course and greet Zeinab today

And do not forsake me, my companions, and go away

إِذا ما قَضَينا ذاتَ نَفسٍ مَريضَةٍ

إِلَيها وَقَرَّت بشالهَوى العَينُ فَاِركَبا

When we fulfill a wish of an ailing soul

And the eye attains the object of its desire, then ride

فَإِنَّكُما إِن تَدعُواني لِمثلِها

إِلى حاجَةٍ فَاستَيقِنا لا تُؤَنَّبا

For if you both call me for the like of it

To a need, be assured, do not be blamed

أَقُولُ لِواشٍ سالَني وَهوَ شامِتٌ

سَعى بَينَنّا بِالصَرمِ حيناً وَأَجلَبا

I say to a fault-finder who asked me while gloating

He tried to make strife between us for a while and brought about separation

سُؤال امرئٍ يُبدى لَنا النُصحَ ظاهِراً

يَجُنُّ خِلالَ النُصحِ غِشّاً مُغَيَّبا

The question of a man who pretends to give us good advice

Yet hides malice amidst the advice

عَلى العَهد لَيلى كَالبَريِّ وَقَد بَدا

لَنا لاهَداهُ اللَهُ ما كانَ سَبَّبا

On the pledge of Layla like an open desert that

Became clear to us, may God guide him to what he caused

بَغاني لَدَيها بَعدَ ما خِلتُ أَنَّهُ

لَهُ الوَيلُ عَن بَغيٍ عَلَينا قَد اَضرَبا

Slanderers with her after I became estranged that

Woe unto him from slander against us he struck

فَإِن تَكُ لَيلى قَد جَفَتني وَطاوَعَت

بِعاقِبَةٍ بِيَ مَن وَشى وَتَكَذَّبا

If Layla has been harsh to me and obeyed

The consequence from one who betrayed and lied

فَقَد باعَدَت نَفساً عَلَيها شَفِيقَةً

وَقَلباً عَصى فيها الحَبيبَ المُقَرَّبا

She has spurned a soul devoted to her

And a heart that obeyed in her the beloved intimate

فَلَستُ وَإِن لَيلى تَوَلَّت بِوُدِّها

وَأَصبَحَ باقي الوَصلِ مِنها تَقَضَّبا

I am not, even if Layla turns away with her love

And the remainder of the connection with her became severed

بِمُثنٍ سِوى عُرفٍ عَلَيها وَمُشمِتٍ

وَشاةً بِها حَولي شُهُوداً وَغُيَّبا

With a blamer other than a custom of virtue upon her and a gloating

Witness around me present and absent

عَلى أَنَّني لا بُدَّ أَنّي لَقائِلٌ

وَذُو البَثِّ قَوّالٌ إِذا ما تَعَتَّبا

Still, I must say while the fault finder is a prattler

When he is grieved

فَلا مَرحَباً بِالشامِتينَ بِهَجرِها

وَلا زَمَنٍ أَمسى بِها قَد تَقَلَّبا

So no welcome to those who gloat at her estrangement

And a time that has changed with her and alternated

فَما زالَ بي ما ضَمَّنتِني مِنَ الجَوى

وَسُقمٍ بِهِ أَعيا عَلى مَن تَطَبَّبا

Still within me is what she inspired of passion

And sickness which I grew weary of one who played the physician

وَكَثرَةِ دَمعِ العَينِ حَتّى لَو أَنَّني

يَراني عَدُوٌّ كاشِحٌ لَتَحَوَّبا

And abundant tears of the eye such that if

An enemy saw me grinning he would show aversion

فَذا العَرش أَنس القَلب ما عشت ذِكرها

فَفَد طالَما أَمسي إِلَيها تَحَبَّبا

The celestial throne was a comfort to the heart I lived remembering her

So I have longed for it since I loved being drawn to her

فَكَم مِن مُشِتٍّ قَد جَمَعتَ بِقُدرَةٍ

وَمُجتَمِعٍ شَعَّبَتهُ فَتَشَعَّبا

So how much adversity have you gathered with power

And gathered and forked one it forked