بُدِّلَ الطرفُ من النوم السهرْ

حين صدّ الظبيُ عَنِّي وهجرْ

Wakefulness has replaced sleep for my eyes,

since the gazelle turned from me and forsook me.

رشأٌ أودع قلبي حسرةً

وحَمى عينيَّ بالدمع النظر

A young gazelle lodged anguish in my heart

and, with tears, barred my eyes from sight.

رِدْفُهُ دِعصٌ وأعلى خصرِه

غُصُنٌ غضٌّ تَجلّاه قمر

His haunch is a sandhill, and above his waist—

a tender bough made radiant by a moon.

وله ثغر شتيت نبتُهُ

وبعينيْه مع السّقم حور

His mouth has teeth set delicately apart,

and in his eyes, despite their languor, is the beauty of deep black against white.

بأبي ذاك حبيباً هاجراً

لم يدعْ لي الحُبُّ عنه مصطَبر

May my father be the ransom of that beloved who forsakes me!

Love has left me no strength to endure separation from him.

علِّلاني عن ملمَّاتِ الذَكَرْ

وانفيا بالكأس عن قلبي الفكر

You two, divert me from the assaults of memory,

and with the cup drive thought from my heart.

واسْمعاني الآن صوتاً طال ما

كادتِ النفسُ عليه تنفطِر

And let me hear now a voice for which, so long,

my soul has nearly burst.

حبذا الحج وأيامُ مِنَى

ومُصلّانا وتقبيلُ الحجر

How lovely are the pilgrimage and the days at Mina,

our place of prayer, and the kissing of the Stone.