ما هذه الحَدَقُ الفواتنْ

إِلاّ سهامٌ في كنائنْ

What are these bewitching eyes

but arrows held in quivers?

وأَغنّ غنَى مُحْسِناً

فعجبت من شادٍ وشادنْ

And a sweet-voiced singer sang beautifully,

so I marveled at singer and young gazelle alike.

ما غرَّدتْ حركاتُه

إِلاّ تراقصتِ السّواكنْ

No sooner did his vocal movements trill

than the motionless themselves began to dance.

يا مودِعاً قلبي هوا

ه توقّ دمعي فهو خائنْ

O you who lodged your love within my heart—

beware my tears, for they are treacherous.

وحللتَ قلباً خافقاً

يا ساكناً في غير ساكن

You have settled in a throbbing heart,

O dweller in what never rests.

أَترى لمن أَوْليتَه

حربَ العواذل أَن يُهادن

Do you think that one upon whom you imposed

war with the reproachers can make peace?

إِنْ خاف قلبي في هوا

ك فأَمرُ جاه الحبّ واهن

If my heart should fear while loving—

you, then the authority of love is frail.

وإِن استجار فإِنّ جا

رك يا ضياء الدين آمن

And if it seeks refuge, then one under—

your protection, O Radiance of the Faith, is safe.