أَثلَ جودي عَلى المُتَيَّمِ أَثلا

لا تَزيدي فُؤَادَهُ بِكِ خَبلا

Your generosity surpasses the generous

Do not make his heart sick for you

أَثلَ إِنّي وَالراَقِصاتِ بِجَمعٍ

يَتَبارَينَ في الأَزِمَّةِ فُتلا

My generosity, I and the dancing girls

Compete at times of crisis and war

سانِحاتٍ يَقطَعنَ مِن عَرفاتٍ

بَينَ أَيدي المَطيِّ حَزناً وَسَهلا

Graceful ones cutting through Arafat

Before the riders in sadness and plains

والأَكُفِّ المُضَمَّراتِ عَلى الرُك

نِ بِشُعثٍ سَعَوا إِلى البَيتِ رَجلى

And the veiled palms on the steed

With disheveled hair, my feet hastened home

لا أَخونُ الصَديقَ في السِرِّ حَتّى

يُنقَلَ البَحرُ بِالغَرابيلِ نَقلا

I do not betray a friend in secret

Until the sea is transported in containers

أَو تَمُرُّ الجِبالُ مَرَّ سَحابٍ

مُرتَقٍ قَد وَعى مِنَ الماءِ ثِقلا

Or mountains pass like heavy

Laden clouds

أَنعَمَ اللَهُ لي بِذا الوَجهِ عَيناً

وَبِهِ مَرحَباً وَأَهلاً وَسَهلا

God has blessed me with this face, welcome

Hello and easy

حينَ قالَت لا تُفشينَّ حَديثي

يا بنَ عَمّي أَقسَمتُ قُلتُ أَجَل لا

When she said do not spread my talk

Dear cousin, I swore yes, no

إِتَّقي اللَهَ واِقبَلي العُذرَ مِنيِّ

وَتَجافي عَن بَعضِ ما كانَ زَلّا

Fear God and accept the apology from me

And avoid some of what was wrong

لا تَصُدّي فَتَقتُلينيَ ظُلماً

لَيسَ قَتلُ المُحِبِّ لِلحِبِّ حِلّا

Do not turn away and wrongfully kill me

Killing the lover is not permitted

ما أَكُن سُؤتُكُم بِهِ فَلَكِ العُت

بى لَدينا وَحَقَّ ذاكَ وَقَلّا

I was not bad to you, so for you is the

Blame for that and little

لَم أُرَ حِّب بِأَن سَخِطتِ وَلَكِن

مَرحَباً أَن رَضيتِ عَنّا وَأَهلا

I have not seen love that you were angry but

Welcome, you were pleased with us and hello

إِنَّ شَخصاً رَأَيتُهُ لَيلَةَ البَد

رِ عَليهِ اِنثَنى الجَمالُ وَحَلّا

A person I saw the night of Bader

Upon him beauty leaned and lodged

جَعَلَ اللَهُ كُلَّ أُنثى فِداءً

لَكِ بَل خَدَّها لِرِجلِك نَعلا

May God ransom you with every female

Nay, He made her cheek to your shoe a shoe lace

وَجهُكِ البَدرُ لَو سَأَلتُ بِهِ المُز

نَ مِنَ الحُسنِ والجَمالِ اِستَهَلّا

Your face is the full moon, if I asked beauty

And perfection from it, it would start

إِنَّ عِندَ الطَوافِ حينَ أَتَتهُ

لَجَمالاً فَعماً وَخُلقاً رِفَلّا

When she came to circumambulate

For beauty, blindness and vulgarity

وَكُسينَ الجَمالَ إِن غِبنَ عَنها

فَإِذا ما بَدَت لَهُنَّ اضمَحَلّا

They wore the dress of beauty if it was

Absent from them, when it appeared to them, it withered