كَيفَ أُصغي لِلعاذِلَين
مَعَ صَبري لِلعاذِلَين
How can I listen to the blamers
Despite my patience with the blamers
إِنَّ خَصمي لَدى الشَجى
في هَواهُ قَلبٌ وَعَين
My adversary in passion
His love a heart and an eye
أَنا في الحُبِّ صادِقٌ
أَنا صَبٌّ بِشاهِدَين
I am sincere in love
I am truthful with two witnesses
فَإِذا رُمتُ سَلوَةً
حيلَ ما بَينَنا بِذَين
So if I get weary
What's between us remains steadfast
وَأَنا كاِبنِ هانِىءٍ
في الصِبا حِلفُ سَكرَتَين
And I'm like a happy lad
In my youth swearing two intoxications
قامَ عُذري بِحُسنِ مَن
هِمتُ فيهِ مِن غَيرِ مَين
My excuse stands with the beauty of one
Whose love pierced me without blemish
بَدرِ تِمٍّ مُرَكَّب
في قَضيبٍ مِنَ اللُجَين
A full moon carried
On a rod of silver
وَجهُهُ الرَوضُ وَالحَيا
مِنهُ مَعسولُ ريقَتَين
His face a garden and life
His saliva is sweetened by two drinks
حُسنُ رَيحانَتَيهِ قَد
زادَ ضِعفاً بِالجَنَتَين
The fragrance of his two gardens
Increased my weakness
لَو حَباني مِن ريقِهِ
كانَ تِرياقَ عَقرَبَين
If he would give me of his saliva
It would be an antidote for two poisons
زَيَّنَ اللَهُ خَدَّهُ
لِعَذابي بِشامَتَين
God adorned his cheek
To torment me with two moles
ذاكَ كَيما يَفوزَ مِن
شيمَةِ الحُسنِ بِاِثنَتَين
So he would succeed due to
The merit of beauty twice over
كانَ فَرداً لِأَجلِ ذا
مَلَكَ الحُسنُ مَرَّتَين
He was unique due to this one
Who beauty reigned over twice
فَلِكُلٍّ عَلامَةٌ
وَهوَ يَحوي عَلامَتَين
So everyone has a sign
While he contains two signs
كَيفَ أَخشى اِشتِراكَهُ
وَهوَ قَد حازَ رَقَّتَين
How can I fear his uniqueness
When he has attained two gentlenesses
لا يَرى الشَيءَ مُشكِلاً
وَهوَ يَقرا لِبَينَتَين
He sees nothing as problematic
While he recites two proofs
وَدَليلي عَلى الَّذي
قُلتُهُ ذو الوَزارَتَين
And my evidence for what
I have said are the two ministers
لَفظَةٌ لا تَرى لَها
في الأَنامِ مُسَمَّيَين
A word that has not been given
Two names by people
فَهوَ يَختَصُّ واحِداً
لَيسَ إِلّا بِالعَدوَتَين
So it pertains to one alone
With nothing but two enmities
سَيِّداً مِن قُضاعَةَ
خَيرَ سامٍ مِن سَيِّدَين
A lord from Qudha'a
The best trustee of two lords
أَخَذَ الجودَ وَالعُلا
شَخصُهُ بِالوِراثَتَين
He took generosity and supremacy
His persona from two heritages
مِن أَبيهِ وَجَدِّهِ
فَهوَ حُسنٌ ذو حُسنَيَين
From his father and grandfather
So he is beauty with two beauties
مِثلُ بَسارينَ في
أَساليفِ النَيرَين
Like Bishr among
The tales of An-Nair
لَو بَغى المَجدَ فَوقَهُ
أَصبَحا فيهِ فَرقَدَين
If he sought glory above it
The two would become submerged in it
إِنَّني مُقسِمٌ بِهِ
وَالمُصَلّى وَالمَأزَمَين
I swear by him
And the praying and the fully armed
لا يُوازيهِ في العُلا
وَبِهِ القَضِيَّتَين
None can equal him in supremacy
Or the two rulings
موَئِلي يا أَبا عَلِيٍّ
يا رَجائي مِن كُلِّ أَين
My refuge, O Abu Ali
My hope from every corner
قَد كَفاني ما حَلَّ بي
مِن خُمولٍ وَفرِطِ بَين
What has befallen me is enough
Of disheartenment and breach between
وَاِطِّراحي لِكُلِّ دَينٍ
وَأَخذي لِكُلِّ دَين
And my discarding of every debt
And my taking of every debt
لا تَدَعني بَعدَ الجَفا
أَتَمَنّى خُفَّي حُنَين
Do not leave me after estrangement
Wishing secretly, yearning
أَنتَ تَدري سَريرَتي
دونَ شَكٍّ بِاِسمٍ وَعَين
You know my inner secrets
Without doubt, by name and by eye
وَشَهيدي في كُلِّ ما
أَدَّعيهِ فَتى رُعَين
And my witness to everything
I claim is a well-guided youth
