يا معشرَ اللوامِ

عذّبتموني ملاما

O you who blame me,

O company of blamers,

You have caused me much grief and sorrow.

You have tormented me with your rebuke.

فليتَ هذي الفع

ال الحرام طابت وداما

If only this deed,

Would that these deeds,

Whether forbidden or permitted, would last forevermore!

The forbidden ones, were sweet and lasting.

واللَهِ ما طابَ عشقٌ

حتى يكونَ حراما

By God, no love is sweet,

By God, love is never delightful

Unless it's forbidden.

Until it becomes forbidden.

يا مضن يقول الغواني

أحلى جنيٌ والتزاما

The libertine says: the fairest reward

O you who claim that fair maidens

Is a boy in the prime of his youth.

Are the sweetest harvest to pluck and embrace,

خذ النساءَ ودع لي

مما يلدنَ غلاما

Take the women and leave for me

Take the women, and leave for me,

Whatever they birth, if it's a boy.

From among their offspring, a lad.

شرطي المراهقُ منهم

قد قاربَ الإحتلاما

Especially the youth among them,

My requirement is the adolescent among them,

Who is nearing puberty.

Who has drawn near to the age of manhood.