ما أحْلاكْ
يا قَمرَ الأحْلاكْ
How beautiful you are,
O moon of all moons!
كَمْ أهواكْ
وفي الحَشا مَثْواكْ ولا تَدْرِي
How I adore you,
Though the wilderness is your home, and you know it not.
الحُسْنُ
يَحارُ في خَدِّكْ
Beauty is baffled by your cheek,
The branch envies your stature.
والغُصْنُ
يَغارُ مِنْ قَدِّكْ
The mind stands still before your affection.
Who adorned you with such beauty?
والذِّهْنُ
وَقفٌ عَلى وُدِّكْ
How beautifully you are adorned!
I cannot forget you,
مَنْ حَلّاكْ
بالحُسنِ ما أحلاكْ
O temptation of the devout, till the Day of Resurrection!
Can there be forgiveness,
لا أنْساكْ
يا فِتْنَةَ النُّسّاكْ الى الحَشْرِ
For a passionate, raving lover,
From the one whose eyelids are closed?
هَلْ سُلْوانْ
لِعاشِقٍ هَيْمانْ
O seducer!
You have been excessive in estrangement.
عَنْ عُدوانْ
ذا الفاترِ الأجفانْ
You have unjustly dragged me,
To the darkness of your absence.
يا فَتَّانْ
أسْرفْتَ في الهِجْرانْ
Who misguided you
To be so cold and aloof?
قَدْ جَرَّاكْ
ظُلْماً عَلى مُغراكْ
No glance is as potent
As your sleeping eyes, O unjust one!
مَنْ أفتاكْ
بالصَّدِّ يا فَتَّاكْ وَبالهَجْرِ
Do you not see I have become
A sympathizer for those in despair?
لا صارِمْ
كَلَحظِكَ النَّائْم
You know full well.
How sober you have remained
يا ظَالِمْ
أما تُرى راحِمْ
To reason! Your eyes
Have intoxicated me without wine.
لِهائِمْ
أنْتَ بِهِ عالِمْ
What excuse is there
For one who strays from affection?
ما أسْباكْ
للعَقْلِ ما أصْباكْ
The full moon wanes
On his cheek,
ها عَيْناكْ
قَدْ أسْكَرَتْ مُضْناكْ بلا خَمْرِ
Hurt and benefit are his soldiers.
If they return you
ما عُذْرُ
مَنْ ضَلَّ عَن وُدِّهْ
To the clothes of decay, I will reject them,
Or if they incline you
والبَدْرُ
بادٍ عَلى خَدِّهْ
To the good pleasure, I will befriend them, the harvest of humankind.
Have mercy,
والضُّرُّ
والنَّفعُ من جُنْدِهْ
O temptation of creation!
Without you
إنْ رَدَّاكْ
ثَوبَ البِلى أرْداكْ
I would not have fallen into languishing,
Rather you came and left no one.
أوْ وَلَّاكْ
طِيْبَ الرِّضى أوْلاكْ جَنى البِشْرِ
Few have seen you,
And not under your control,
رُحْماكا
يا فِتْنَةَ الخَلْقِ
Pass by, pass by,
O you who see me - do you see?
لَولاكا
ما صِرْتُ في رِقِّ
بَلواكا
عَمَّتْ وَلَمْ تُبْقِ
قلّ مَنْ رَاك
وَلَيْسَ مِنْ أَسْراكْ
مُرْ أَيَّاكْ
يا نَاظِرْ أَيّاكْ أَنِ اِشْ نَدري
