ما حيلَتي غَيَّرَ الهجرانُ أَلواني
وَالبين بَعد لَذيذ الوَصل أَلواني
My condition has changed its colors since we parted,
And separation after the sweet union has changed my colors.
وَعاذِلي عاذري فيمن رمى كبدي
عَن قوس حاجبه ظُلماً فَأَصماني
My blamer blames me for one who shot my liver,
Unjustly, from the bow of his eyebrow and made me deaf.
وَكان أَقسم لَمّا أَن صَبَوت لَهُ
أَن لا يَخون فَما أَوفى بِأيمان
He had sworn, when I was devoted to him,
That he would not betray, but he did not keep his oath.
وَكانَ عَهدي بِهِ أَن لا يُقاطعني
مِن حَيث في حُبِّه قاطَعت خلاني
My pact with him was that he would not boycott me
From where, in his love, he had severed my companions.
فَخابَ ظَني وَعُمري ضاعَ أَكثَرُه
ما بَين صدٍّ وتَعنيفٍ وهجران
So my assumption was wrong and most of my life was wasted
Between rejection, rebuke, and estrangement.
هَذا وَإِنيَ لَم أَشكو إِلى أَحَدٍ
كربي وَسُهدي وَآلامي وَأَشجاني
And I have not complained to anyone
Of my anguish, sleeplessness, pain, and sorrows.
وَكلَّما رمتُ أَسلو لا يُطاوعني
قَلبٌ نَما وَجدُه فيهِ وَأَعياني
Whenever I try to comfort myself, my obstinate heart disobeys me,
A heart that found solace in it and my eyes.
يا قَلب حتامَ ترضيه وَتغضبني
مِن بعد ما مالَ للأعدا وَعاداني
O heart, how long will you appease him and anger me,
After he has inclined to the enemy and become hostile to me?
وَكَيفَ تشرك في دين الهَوى سَفهاً
وَالشرك لَيسَ سِوى كفر وَكفران
How foolishly do you associate others in the religion of love,
When polytheism is nothing but blasphemy and blasphemy?
أَم كَيفَ تَرغب في رِجس وَمبتذل
وَإِن يَكُن أَصلُه مِن دار رضوان
Or how can you desire the vile and the degraded,
Even if its origin is from the Abode of Peace?
أَما كَفى أَنهُ ما ودّه أَحدٌ
إِلا ذَليلٌ مهينٌ فاسق شاني
Is it not enough that no one loved him
Except the despicable, disgraced, and immoral?
أَما تَرى كَيفَ كانَت أَمسَ وَقعتُه
مَع البَليد الذَميم الخائن الجاني
Do you not see how yesterday I was deceived,
By the insensitive betrayer and treacherous villain?
وَافاه شَهراً فَلَمّا قلَّ درهمُه
جَفاه جَفوة غَدّارٍ وَخوّان
He kept him for a month, but when his money was scarce,
He shunned him with the betrayal of a traitor and deceiver.
فَجاءَ يَسعى بَليدُ السوء عاقبه
عَلى خِيانة مَعروفٍ وَإِحسان
So the despicable traitor got his just desserts
For the betrayal of kindness and favor.
لَكنهم عَزَلوه مِن سَفاهته
عَن منصب بَينَ أَقران وَأَخدان
But they dismissed him from his position for his stupidity,
Among colleagues and brethren.
أَما المنافق مذموم فَما ربحت
مَعهُ تجارته مِن بَعد خسران
As for the hypocrite, condemned, I gained nothing
From his business after the loss.
فَإنَّهم عَزَلوه حَيث شاركه
في الإثم وَاللَه يجزي كُلَّ إِنسان
For they dismissed him when he partook
In sin, and Allah repays every man.
وَسَوفَ يَلقى قَرين السوء صفقتَه
في يَوم نَحس وَتنكيل وَأَحزان
And he will meet his wicked friend's punishment
On an inauspicious day of suffering and sorrows.
يَومٍ يَعض عَلى الكَفين مِن نَدَمٍ
فيهِ وَيُمسي ذَليلاً بَين إِخوان
A day he will bite his hands in regret
And become disgraced among brethren.
لَو أَنَّهُم سمعوا نصحي لَما خسروا
لَما أَتيت لَهُم فيهِ بِسُلطان
If only they had heeded my advice, they would not have lost.
I did not come to them with proof.
لَكنهم جَهلوا وَالجَهلُ غايته
في هذهِ الخزي بَينَ الإنس وَالجان
But they were ignorant, and the utmost ignorance
Is this disgrace among mankind and jinn.
وَفي القِيامة لا تجزى نَميمتهم
إِلا بزجر وَرَدع ثُمَّ نيران
On Judgement Day, their gossip will be rewarded
Only with rebuke, deterrence, then fire.
أَما الدنيّ فتكفيهِ مذلَّتُه
وَالصفع في هذهِ ما بين أَقران
As for the lowly, his humiliation here suffices,
And the slap among peers.
وَمَسخة بِثِياب الخزي قَد كسيت
نَعوذ بِاللَه من خزي وَخذلان
And the hideous attire of disgrace has clothed
May Allah protect us from disgrace and abandonment.
وَالزمهرير لَهُ مِن بَعد مَيتته
يمسي وَيُصبح مَقروناً بِشَيطان
And the snarling of hellfire is his lot after death,
Accompanying him morning and eve with a devil.
