مظلومة تلك القلوب يسيؤها

في ميلها اللوام والعشاق

Oppressed are those hearts that are mistreated

In their inclination, blame, and lovers

من عهد آدم ما رأت من منصف

حر القضاء وتشهد الأوراق

Since the time of Adam, they have not seen a just one

With free judgement, though papers testify

لا ذوق فيها قلدوه فإن من

تقليد قوم تهجن الاذواق

There is no taste in what they attributed to them, for verily

Imitating a people corrupts tastes

كم عنفوها في الغرام وعلمهم

من طوقها ألا سلو يطاق

How much they have wronged them in passion, and their knowledge

From its necklace that it cannot be endured

كم حملوها في الهوى تبعاته

واللَه يعلم أن ذاك نفاق

How much they have burdened them in love with its consequences

And Allah knows that this is hypocrisy

باللَه ما ذنب القلوب وجأشها

ما لاح حسن خليقة خفاق

By Allah, the hearts and their ardour have no sin

A beautiful creation did not appear radiant

هل كان ذنبا خفقها بصبابة

والخفق قدره لها الخلاق

Was it a sin its flutter with youth

And fluttering is what the Creator destined it

لو كان في الرزق المقدر حيلة

لتحايلت لكن كذا الأرزاق

If there was a way with predestined rizq (sustenance)

It would have schemed, but thus are rizq

أما العيون فهذه ما ذنبها

حسن يلوح فترسم الأحداق

As for the eyes, what is their sin

A beauty appears so the eyelids design

والذهن ينقل للقلوب معدة

فينا لتفعل فعلها الأشواق

And the mind conveys to the hearts inclination

To act within us the work of passions

لو أنصفوا اتهموا الجمال فإنه

سحر القلوب وطبعه سراق

If they were just, they would blame the beauty for verily

It is the magic of hearts and its nature is thieving