Claude 2

  1. إغتال قلبي يا له من جائر

    وأراني دمه في ناظري

    My heart was murdered, O what an oppressor!

    And he showed me its blood in my eyes.

  2. وعجيب كل ذا من هاجري

    وإذا مثّلته في خاطري

    Strange is all that from my companion,

    And if I imagine him in my mind,

  3. صفّق القلب إليه وهفا

    أخبروا من صدّ عنّي وغوى

    The heart applauds him and inclines towards him.

    Tell the one who turned away from me and went astray,

  4. لست اسلوه وإن طال النوى

    رغم ما قاسيت من جور الجوى

    I will not reproach him, even if the separation is prolonged,

    Despite the injustice of separation I endured,

  5. أنا سهران على عهد الهوى

    لم أنم وهو بعهدي ما وفا

    I am awake, faithful to the pact of love,

    I did not sleep while he did not keep his promise to me.

  6. لست بالسالي ولا بالصابر

    فحبيبي لم يزل في خاطري

    I am neither indifferent nor patient,

    For my beloved is still in my thoughts,

  7. آه ما قولكم بالنافر

    أنا لو ناديته يا هاجري

    Oh, what do you say to the aloof one?

    If I called him saying: My companion!

  8. هذه روحي فخذها ما احتفى

    من لصبّ بات منهوك القوى

    He whose love keeps me weak and feeble,

    His affliction grew hard and separation weakened me,

  9. داؤه استعصى وأضناه الجوى

    هكذا يعمل بالصبّ النوى

    This is how separation eats away at the sincere lover,

    So describe to me, my friend, the remedy,

  10. فصفا لي يا خليليّ الدوا

    وأرى الحيلة أن لا تصفا

    And I see no solution but to stop describing him.

    In the name of the rights of love, he knows he did wrong,

  11. بحقوق الحبّ يدري مجحف

    وبتعذيبي حبيبي مسرف

    And by tormenting me, my beloved went too far,

    I have not stopped, while passion is destroying my soul,

  12. لم أزل والوجد روحي متلف

    مستهام في هواه مدنف

    Infatuated by his love, utterly devastated,

    Should I be content, infatuated and devastated?

  13. أترضّى مستهاما مدنفا

    هل يقاسي ما أقاسي أحد

    Does anyone suffer what I suffer?

    Perhaps tomorrow hopes will revive,

  14. فعسى الآمال يحييها غد

    ويفي بالوعد ظبي مفرد

    And the lone gazelle will fulfill his promise,

    He truly promised me a secret meeting.

  15. صح لي في السر منه موعد

    ثمّ ما صدّقت حتى أخلفا

    But I did not believe him until he broke his word.