أَلا يا اِسقِياني بِالرَحيقِ فَنيتُ
وَلَو بَقِيَت حُبّى لَنا لَبَقيتُ
Ah, you two, give me pure wine to drink; I have wasted away.
And had Hubba remained with us, I too would have remained.
أَرى سَقَمي يَزدادُ مِن أُمِّ مالِكٍ
وَلو ذُقتُ يَوماً ريقَها لَبَريتُ
I see my sickness worsening because of Umm Malik;
And had I one day tasted her saliva, I would have been cured.
أَظَلُّ كَأَنّي شارِبٌ سُمَّ حَيَّةٍ
وَيَعتادُني الوَسواسُ حينَ أَبيتُ
I spend the day as though I had drunk a serpent's venom,
And obsessive thoughts haunt me when I lie down at night.
فَسُبحانَ رَبّي لا جَلادَةَ بَعدَما
جَرَيتُ وَأَبلاني الهَوى فَبَليتُ
So glory be to my Lord! No endurance remains after
I have run, and passion has worn me out, so I have wasted away.
ظَمِئتُ فَلَم أَظمَأ إِلى بَردِ مَشرَبٍ
وَلَكِن إِلى وَجهِ الحَبيبِ ظَميتُ
I thirsted, but did not thirst for the coolness of a drink;
Rather, I thirsted for the beloved's face.
وَقَد وَعَدَتنا نائِلاً ثُمَّ أَخلَفَت
وَقالَت لَنا يَومَ الفِراقِ نَسيتُ
And she had promised us a favor, then broke her promise,
And told us on the day of parting, 'I forgot.'
فَما إِن سَقَتنا شَربَةً مِن رُضابِها
وَلَو فَعَلَت ماتَ الهَوى وَرَضيتُ
Yet she did not give us even a sip of her saliva;
And had she done so, passion would have died, and I would have been content.
Sol 6.1