لَم يَسمعِ القلبُ فِيهِ للنّاهي

نَهياً ولا راحَ عنه بالسّاهي

The heart heard no prohibition from the warner,

Nor did it become diverted by the distractor.

يلهو إذا ما شكوتُ مشتغِلاً

عنّي وما القلبُ عنه بِاللاّهي

It plays when I complain of one preoccupied

With other than me, though the heart is not neglectful of him.

والله لا قلتُ في هوايَ له

آهاً لكي أستريح في آه

By God, I'd say to the one I love,

"Ah," just to find some rest in "Ah."

فليُزْهَ وليَسْتَطِل عليَّ فما

أعشَق إلاّ الظَّلومَ والزّاهي

So let him be unjust and drag it out with me -

I love none but the oppressor and the procrastinator.

كأنّما عينُه مجرِّدةٌ

عليَ سيفَ العزيز باللهِ

It's as though his eye were a bare sword

Upon me - the Almighty's sword!

الملِك الوارث الإمامةَ عن

كلّ إمامٍ أغَرَّ أَواهِ

The King, inheritor of the Imamate from

Every Imam, he of the most dazzling signs.