بِنَفسِيَ مَن لا بُدَّ أَنِّيَ هاجِرُه

وَمَن أَنا بِالمَيسورِ وَالعُسرِ ذاكِرُه

With my soul I must emigrate from one I cannot avoid

Yet I recall him in hardship and ease

وَمَن قَد رَماهُ الناسُ بي فَاِتَّقاهُمُ

بِبَغضِيَ إِلّا ما تَجِنُّ ضَمائِرُه

And he whom people cast at me, so beware of them

With my hatred but what their consciences conceal

بِنَفسِيَ مَن لا أُخبِرُ الناسَ بِاِسمِهِ

وَإِن حَمَلَت حِقداً عَلَيَّ عَشائِرُه

With my soul I won't tell people his name

Even if his clans bore malice towards me

بِأَهلي وَمالي مَن جَلَبتُ لَهُ الأَذى

وَمَن ذِكرُهُ مِنّي قَريبٌ أُسامِرُه

With my family and wealth I brought harm upon one

Whose mention to me is intimate though I converse with him

وَمَن لَو جَرَت شَحناءُ بَيني وَبَينَهُ

وَحاوَرَني لَم أَدرِ كَيفَ أُحاوِرُه

And one, if discord flowed between us

And he conversed with me I wouldn't know how to converse with him

أَيَثبي أَخا ضَرورَةٍ أَصفَقَ العِدى

عَلَيهِ وَقَلَّت في الصَديقِ أَواسِرُه

Does he confirm a brother of necessity whom the enemies

Clapped upon and few became his loyal friends?

وَمُستَخبِرٍ عَنها لِيَعلَمَ ما الَّذي

لَها في فُؤادي غَيرَ أَنّي أُحاذِرُه

And inquirer about it to know what is mine

In my heart for him other than that I am wary of him

فَلَو كُنتُ أَدري أَنَّ ما كانَ كائِنٌ

وَأَنَّ جَديدَ الوَصلِ قَد حُبِّرَ غابِرُه

So had I known what would happen

And that the new union's ink had dried and gone

وَرَدتُ بِهِ عَمياءَ مِنها وَلَم أَكُن

إِذا ما وَشى واشٍ بِلَيلى أُناظِرُه

I would've returned with it blindly and I wasn't

When a slanderer slandered Layla, looking at him

وَلَمّا تَناهى الحُبُّ في القَلبِ وارِداً

أَقامَ وَسَدَّت بَعدَ عَنّا مَصادِرُه

And when love in the heart came to an end

It stayed and after us its sources were blocked

فَأَيُّ طَبيبٍ يُبرِئُ الحُبَّ بَعدَما

يُسَرُّ بِهِ بَطنُ الفُؤادِ وَظاهِرُه

So which doctor cures love after

It cheers the viscera of the heart and its exterior?

وَلا بَأسَ بِالهَجرِ الَّذي عَن قِلى

إِذا شَجَرَت عِندَ الحَبيبِ شَواجِرُه

And no harm from estrangement which from meeting

If its trees fruited for the beloved, and we conversed

وَلَكِنَّ مِثلَ المَوتِ هِجرانُ ذي الهَوى

حَذارِ الأَعادي وَالحَبيبُ مُجاوِرُه

But like death is the estrangement of the beloved one

Beware enemies and the beloved dwells beside him

فَلَمّا رَأَيتُ المالِكيِّينَ كُلِّهِم

إِلَيَّ يُراعي طَرفَهُ وَيُحاذِرُه

So when I saw all the guards

Looking at me and being wary of him

تَجَنَّبتُ آتي المالِكيِّينَ وَاِنطَوى

إِلَيَّ جَناحَيَّ الَّذي أَنا ناشِرُه

I avoided the guards' comers and folded

To me the wings which I spread