كَما تَشاءُ فَقُل لي لَستُ مُنتَقِلاً
لا تَخشَ مِنِّيَ نِسياناً وَلا بَدَلا
Say whatever you please to me—I shall not turn away.
Do not fear that I will forget, or exchange you for another.
وَكَيفَ يَنساكَ مَن لَم يَدرِ بَعدَكَ ما
طَعمُ الحَياةِ وَلا بِالبُعدِ عَنكَ سَلا
And how could one forget you who, after you, no longer knows
the taste of life, nor, far from you, has found solace?
أَتلَفتَني كَلَفاً أَبلَيتَني أَسَفاً
قَطَّعتَني شَغَفاً أَورَثتَني عِلَلا
You have consumed me with passion and worn me away with sorrow;
you have torn me apart with longing and afflicted me with maladies.
إِن كُنتُ خُنتُ وَأَضمَرتُ السُلُوَّ فَلا
بَلَغتُ يا أَمَلي مِن قُربَكَ الأَمَلا
If I have betrayed you and secretly harbored thoughts of forgetting, may I never
attain, O my hope, through nearness to you, the hope I seek.
وَاللَهُ لا عَلِقَت نَفسي بِغَيرِكُمُ
وَلا اِتَّخَذتُ سِواكُم مِنكُمُ بَدَلا
By God, my soul has never clung to anyone but you,
nor have I taken anyone other than you as a substitute for you.
Sol 5.6