مَنَعَ الصَومُ العُقارا

وَزَوى اللَهوَ فَغارا

Fasting forbade drink

Fasting has forbidden the wine,

And diminished frivolity

And withheld amusement, so it vanished away.

وَبَقينا في سُجونِ ال

صَومِ لِلهَمِّ أَسارى

And we remain in the prisons of fasting

And we remained in the prisons of the

Captives to anxiety

Fast, captives to distress.

غَيرَ أَنّا سَنُداري

فيهِ مَن لَيسَ يُدارى

Except that we will secretly

Yet we shall cunningly evade,

Drink at night with those who cannot be denied

Therein, Him who is not easily evaded.

نَشرَبُ اللَيلَ إِلى الصُب

حِ صِغاراً وَكِبارا

We will drink from dusk until dawn

We drink the night away until the dawn,

Both small and great

Both the young ones and the old.

وَنُغَنّي ما اِشتَهَينا

هُ مِنَ الشِعرِ جِهارا

And we will sing what we desire

And we sing whatever we desire

Of poetry aloud

Of poetry, openly and aloud.

اِسقِني حَتّى تَراني

أَحسَبُ الديكَ حِمارا

Serve me drink until you see me

Pour me drink until you see me

Mistake the rooster for a donkey

Mistaking the rooster for a donkey.