Claude 2

  1. ضوء الصباحْ قد رفع حجابوا

    وشَرَقْ نسيمُو على البطاحْ

    The morning light has lifted its veil

    And its breeze has spread over the sands

  2. ودير يا ليلى ما أطيب شرابو

    إِذا حضرْ سلطانْ الملاحْ

    Come, O Layla, how sweet is its drink

    When the sultan of sailors is present

  3. ما أطيبْ يا ليلى ذاك النسيمْ

    الله يحيى ذاكْ الصباحْ

    How sweet, O Layla, is that breeze

    May God keep that morning alive

  4. أرى على عهدكِ القديمْ

    أكواسا قدْ مَزِجَتْ براحْ

    I see in your old covenant

    Cups that have been mixed with ease

  5. حتى إذا تخلوا بالنديمْ

    درها عليَّا روحْ براح

    Until when alone with the companion

    Serve in it to me, O breeze, gently

  6. خذ الفقيرْ واجمعْ ثيابُه

    قد حلَّ بيعه في الاصطباحْ

    Take the poor man and gather his clothes

    His sale has arrived in the morning

  7. ومَنْ عَتَبْ دعوه مع عتابُه

    أنا فقيرْ بلا سلاحْ

    And whoever blames, call him with his blame

    I am a poor man without a weapon

  8. كم لكِ يا ليلى من المعاني

    لمِنْ عرفْ معناكِ القديم

    How many meanings, O Layla, you have

    For one who knows your old meaning

  9. امليتِ من حسنك الأواني

    وكلْ عاشق فيكِ يهيمْ

    I filled from your beauty the cups

    And every lover in you wanders

  10. أنا الذي قد عَمَّرْ جناني

    بليلى والخمرْ والنديم

    It is I who lived my gardens

    With Layla, wine, and the companion

  11. يعجبني خَمْرُكْ على حبابو

    إِذا مُزْج عند الاصطباحْ

    Your wine pleases me in its vapor

    When blended at dawn

  12. نحكيه للجوهر العجيبو

    إِذا جُعِل في أعناقْ الملاحْ

    We narrate it to the wondrous pearl

    When placed on the necks of sailors

  13. يا من يلم خَمرة المحبة

    قولوا لو عني هِيَ حلالْ

    O you who gather the wine of love

    Tell him, is it forbidden or lawful?

  14. يا من يريد يسقي منها غبه

    خدوا يضع لأقدام الرجال

    O you who wants to quench his thirst from it

    Take, let him bow to the feet of men

  15. راسي حطيته لكل شيبه

    هموا المالي اسقوني الزلال

    I have laid my head for every gray hair

    They cared, serving me the fresh

  16. وفي ديرهم حطت الرقابْ

    وكل من لاقاهم رباحْ

    And in their monastery I laid my necks

    And all who met them profited

  17. ومن عرف معنى ذا الخطابْ

    يبحْ شربُه منها الملاحْ

    And whoever understood this speech

    His drinking from it sailors quaff