غدا فيكَ قلبي أحمديّ صبابة
فإحراقه بالنار منكَ عجيب
For you, my heart became Aḥmadī in its ardent longing;
so for you to burn it with fire is wondrous indeed.
ولحظك سهمٌ لا يردُّ فحبَّذا
للحظك سهمٌ في الحشا ونصيب
Your glance is an arrow that cannot be turned aside—how welcome
the arrow—and allotted share—your glance has within my vitals!
ويا عاذِلي إنِّي لنقلك صابرٌ
وإنِّي مقيمٌ ما أقام عسيب
O you who blame me, I patiently bear the words you repeat;
and I shall remain so long as Mount ʿAsīb stands.
غريب غرام في غريبِ محاسنٍ
وكلُّ غريبٍ للغريب نسيب
Made a stranger by love amid the wondrous strangeness of your beauties—
and every stranger is kindred to a stranger.
Sol 5.6