ما عَوَّضتكَ بهجرها عن وَصلها
إلا وقد جادَت عليك ببخلها
You have not replaced her abandonment with her affection
Except that she was miserly with you
فاطلب لمُقلَتك الهجوع تخيُّلاً
فعسا يُعلَلكَ الخيالُ يمثلها
Seek solace for your grief with imagination
Perhaps fantasy will represent her to you
هيهاتَ أن تحظى بزورَةِ طَيفها
ما دام طرفُكَ ساهراً من أجلها
Alas! You will never enjoy the phantom of her image
As long as your eyes stay awake for her
حَمَّلتَ نفسك فوق ما اعتادته من
تَعَب الهوى فَتَعبتَ أنت بحمله
You have burdened yourself beyond what you were used to
Of the fatigue of passion, so you grew tired carrying it
يا صاحبي باللَه إن جئتَ الحمى
قف بالربوع مُسائلا عن أهلها
O my friend, by Allah, if you come to her abode
Stand at the meadows asking about its people
والثُم ثراها كلَّه عَنِّى فلى
قَلبٌ أقام بِحَزنِها وبسَهلِها
All of its butterflies are gone from me, so I have
A heart that stayed in its sadness and its plains
ومتى بَدَت لك من فُتنتَ بحُبِّها
فاخرُس فؤادك أن تصابَ بنبلَها
And whenever her beauty tempted you to love her
Silence your heart lest you get struck by her arrows
وإذا ادَّعَت حُسنَ الحسانِ بأسره
سَلم فقد دلَّت عليه بدَلَّها
And if she claimed the perfection of beauty entirely
Submit, for she has demonstrated it by her proofs
أَترى ليالي الوَصل ترجَعُ ليلةً
منها فيُقنع بعضُها عن كلّها
Do you see the nights of union returning one night
Where some of it satisfies for all of it
والإمَ في الدنيا أُوَسِّعُ رغبتي
وعليَّ قد ضاقَت مسالكُ سُبلها
And my hope in life is to expand my desire
Yet its paths have narrowed for me
لا ذَنبَ للأيام عندي في الذي
صَنَعَت ويَعذرها الحليم لجهلها
The days are not to blame in my view for what
They did, and the forbearing pardons them in their ignorance
كم ذا أُعاتبها كأن لم يُنسني
إحسانُ صدرِ الدين سَيِّئَ فعلها
How much should I blame them when the benevolence of
The beginning of the era did not make me forget its evil doing
سَمَت الوزارةُ في حماه لأنها
من أهله ولأنه من أهلها
Authority has established itself in Hama because it is
Of its people and because he is of its people
لا تَعتَرِر بالصَّفحِ من أخلاقهِ
وحذارِ تُطمِعُك السيوف بصَقلها
Do not argue forgiveness from its ethics
And beware that the swords tempt you with their sharpening
