إِنَّ الذِي حَازَ مُهْجَتِي شَغَفاً

قَدْ لَجَّ فِي هَجْرِهِ وَمَا عَطَفَا

Truly, he who seized my very soul with passion

Has stubbornly persisted in abandonment, showing no sympathy.

سَدَّدَ نَحْوِي سِهَامَ قَوْسِ جَفَا

حَسْبِي الإِلَهُ مِنَ الْجَفَا وَكَفَى

He aimed at me the arrows from the bow of cruelty;

God is sufficient for me against this harshness, and He suffices.

إِنْ كانَ أَبْهَجَنِي غَداةَ وَفَى

فَكَمْ بَرَانِي النَّحِيبُ حِينَ جَفَا

If he brought me joy on the morning he was faithful,

Then how much has weeping consumed me when he turned away.

سَلَّمَهُ اللهُ لاَ أُعَاتِبُهُ

فَعَنْ سَبِيلِ الْمِلاَحِ مَا صَدَفَا

May God keep him safe, I do not reproach him,

For from the path of the beautiful ones he has not strayed.

وَلاَ سَخِطْتُ الذِي رَمَانِي بِهِ

وَإِنْ كَسَانِي السَّقَامَ وَالدَّنَفَا

Nor did I resent what he inflicted upon me,

Even as he clothed me in sickness and wasting disease.

لَكِنْ نَفَثْتُ الْغَرَامَ مُسْتَشْفِياً

فَإِنَّ فِي نَفْثِ ذِي الْغَرَامِ شِفَا

But I breathed out my passion, seeking a cure,

For in the sighs of the impassioned there is healing.

سَأَسْأَلُ الصَّفْحَ عَنْ جِنَايَتِهِ

إِنْ صِرْتُ مِنْهَا عَلَى شَفِيرِ شَفَا

I shall ask forgiveness for his transgression,

Even if it brought me to the very brink of the abyss.

وَأَطْلُبُ الصَّفْوَ مِنْ رِضَاهُ فَقَدْ

جَنَيْتُ مِنْ غَرْسِ هَجْرِهِ التَّلَفَا

And I seek the pure grace of his approval, for I have

Reaped devastation from the planting of his estrangement.

يَا غُصْنُ يَا بَدْرُ عَطْفَةً وَسَناً

يَا ظَبْيُ يَا شَمْسُ خِلْقَةً وَصَفَا

O branch, O full moon, in swaying grace and radiance,

O gazelle, O sun, in perfect form and purity,

أَصْلَيْتَنِي بِنَارِ الصُّدُودِ نَارَ الأَسَى

هَبْ لِي مِنَ الْوَصْلِ جَنَّةً أُنُفَا

You scorched me with the fire of rejection, the fire of sorrow,

So grant me from our union an untouched paradise.