حتّامَ تُبذَلُ في هواكَ الأنفُسُ

وتُصانُ عنها بالجمالِ وتُحرَسُ

Souls are sacrificed for your love,

And protected from it by beauty and guarded,

وإِلامَ يُوحِشُكَ الغِنَى عن مُغرمٍ

أبداً بوحشةِ فقرهِ يستأنسُ

Why does wealth make you lonesome without a lover,

Always with the loneliness of his poverty it makes friends,

كُلِّي لأعينهِ ثُغورٌ لُعَّسٌ

ومعاطفٌ غيدٌ ودُعجٌ نُعَّسُ

My eyes for it are tears and crying,

And overflowing emotions and grieving cries,

حيثُ اتَّجهتُ رأَيتُ مُغرىً بي لهُ

دمعٌ يرضُّ بجانسي يتجَنَّسُ

Wherever I went I saw for it a lover,

A teardrop that mingles with my side and nestles,

وإذا رجَعتَ إِلى الصَّحيحِ فكلُّها

أغصانُ دوحٍ قد حواها مغرِسُ

And if you return to the truth, they are all,

Branches of a sand dune it has sheltered and planted,

معنىً بهِ لطُفَ الكَثيفُ فأصبحت

صُمُّ الجبالِ هيَ الغصونُ الميَّسُ

With meaning in it the dense became gentle,

And the mountain rocks are the soft branches,

وخفيفةٌ طوتِ البعيدَ فرامَةُ

نجدٌ وليثُ الغابِ ظبيٌ أَلعسُ

And the distant folded lightly so the herd animal,

Of the forest a fierce lion it alarmed and frightened,

ووراءَ ذاك ولا أُشيرُ لأنَّهُ

سِرٌّ لسانُ النُّطقِ عنهُ أخرسُ

And beyond that I do not hint for it is,

A secret the tongue of speech about it is silenced,

أمرٌ لهُ وبه ومنهُ تعيّنت

أَعيانُنا ووجودُنا الُمتلَبِّسُ

A matter for it and by it and from it our entities,

Were determined and our existence dressed.