أنا رأسٌ في الضلالِ

أنا مأوى كلّ ضالِ

I am a head in straying

I am a chieftain in the ways of error,

I am a refuge for every stray

The refuge for every wayward soul.

أنا لا أصبو لخودٍ

أنا صبٍّ بالغزالِ

I yearn not for any cheek

I incline not toward the tender maid,

I am pouring towards the gazelle

But am enamored with the young gazelle.

أصبحَ المُراقُ والمُج

نُ جميعاً في عيالِ

The sleepless and the crazed

The renegades and the libertines

Have all become my children

Have all become my dependents.

علمَ اللَهُ بأنّي

لا أؤدي رأسَ مالي

God knows that I

God knows well that I

Do not pay my capital

Do not preserve my capital.

انظروا من عن يميني

وانظروا مَن عن شمالي

Look at who is on my right

Look ye who sits at my right hand,

And look at who is on my left

And look ye who sits at my left.