يا من ولهت به والقلب طار له
والروح تاخذها من ذكره الفكر
O you with whom I am enraptured—for whom my heart has taken wing,
and at the thought of him, remembrance carries my soul away.
اصبو اليك ولم ابرح بمنزلتي
من شيمتي وبكلي النار تستعر
I yearn for you, yet I have never left my station;
it is among my traits, while through all of me the fire blazes.
لولا سناك الذي لاحت بوارقه
ما طاب لي ان يرى في برجه القمر
Were it not for your radiance, whose lightning flashes gleam,
I would take no delight in seeing the moon within its celestial mansion.
وقائل قال لي كم قد خلوت به
فخذ نصيبك كيما يخمد الشرر
Someone said to me, “How often you have been alone with him!
Take your share, so that the sparks may die down.”
فقلت دعني لذي اللذات عاقبة
لا خير في لذة من بعدها سقر
I said, “Leave me be: the possessor of pleasures faces an aftermath—
there is no good in a pleasure followed by Saqar.”
Sol 5.6