1. زُرْ بناتِ القسوس في ديرِ هِنَّهْ

    وارتشفْ خمرهنَّ من يدِهِنَّهْ

    Visit the daughters of priests in the monastery of Hinnah

    And drink their wine from their hands

  2. وادخل الحان حان وصلك للغي

    د اللواتي أعربن في لحنهنَّهْ

    And enter every tavern that brings you to the beloved

    Who spoke eloquently in their melody

  3. هن أصل الهوى وما هام يوماً

    ذو الهوى في الأنام إلا بهنَّهْ

    They are the origin of passion, and no passionate one

    Has ever become passionate among people except through them

  4. كل هيفاء بالتبسم تحيي

    وتميتُ المشوق وجداً وحنَّهْ

    Each beautiful one greets with a smile

    And I die of yearning, sorrow and longing

  5. إن أشارت إلى الكيان أبانت

    عنه أو لا فإنه في أكِنَّهْ

    If she gestures to the soul, she reveals it

    Or not, for it is in her protection

  6. وإذا ما دعت أجبنا حيارى

    بنفوس في حبها مطمئنَّهْ

    And if she invites us, we respond confused

    With souls in love with her reassured

  7. فق نديمي من نوم عقلك واركع

    لغواني الوجود واسجد لَهُنَّهْ

    Wake my friend from the sleep of your mind and bow down

    To the idols of existence and prostrate to them

  8. وتأمل ما أنت فيه بعين

    ربطتها مِلاحُها بالأَعِنَّهْ

    And observe what you are in with an eye

    That their beauty has chained to the iris

  9. واستمع رنة المزاهر تبدو

    من خلال الستور أكمل رَنَّهْ

    And listen to the humming of flowers that appears

    Through the veils, most melodious

  10. هذه هذه سعادة قومٍ

    عملهم في الصدور لم يتسنَّهْ

    This, this is the happiness of a people

    Whose deeds in the chests have not been facilitated