للذي ذَلَّ من الشوقِ فَلن

وإذا عزَّ الذي تَهوى فهُن

Be gentle with the one whom love has humbled;

and if the one you love is exalted, lower yourself.

كُن ذليلاً للذي يشبهُهُ

رشأٌ أحوَى وَبدرٌ وغُصُن

Be humble before whatever resembles him:

a dark-lipped fawn, a full moon, a bough.

وأطِع طرفَك فيه لا تقُل

ليتَ ما بي من هواهُ لم يكُن

Obey your eye where he is concerned; do not say,

“Would that the love of him within me had never been.”

واعصِ مَن يَعذلُ في الوجدِ لِمَن

إنما يوماهُ نُورٌ وحسَن

And defy whoever reproaches you for passion toward one

whose two days are nothing but light and beauty.