فَدَيناكَ أَهدى الناسِ سَهماً إِلى قَلبي

وَأَقتَلَهُم لِلدارِعينَ بِلا حَربِ

You gifted the best of men an arrow into my heart

May I be your ransom, O surest of archers to my heart,

And I would kill them for the unarmed with no war

Most lethal to the armored knights without a single war.

تَفَرَّدَ بِالأَحكامِ في أَهلِهِ الهَوى

فَأَنتَ جَميلُ الخُلفِ مُستَحسَنُ الكِذبِ

Passion dominated its people with judgments

Passion holds sole dominion in its judgments o'er its kin,

So you are beautiful in ancestry and good at lying

So you are fair in broken vows, and beautiful in lies.

وَإِنّي لَمَمنوعُ المَقاتِلِ في الوَغى

وَإِن كُنتُ مَبذولَ المَقاتِلِ في الحُبِّ

And I am prevented from fighting in battle

For though my vital spots are guarded in the heat of battle,

And if I am given over to fighting in love

I leave them defenseless and exposed when in the throes of love.

وَمَن خُلِقَت عَيناكَ بَينَ جُفونِهِ

أَصابَ الحُدورَ السَهلَ في المُرتَقى الصَعبِ

And your eyes were created between their lids

And he within whose eyelids those eyes of yours were formed,

They attained the sublime heights in the difficult ascent

Has found the rugged, steep ascent as easy as a slope.