هل لصبّ قد غير السقم حاله

زورة منكم على أي حالة

Does a lover's pain ever change its state,

Regardless of how I implore and try?

يا لقومي من للفتى من فتاة

مزجت كأس صدها بالملاله

Oh my people, what maid is there for a young man

Who mixes his wine cup with boredom?

بغزال الكناس تزري لحاظا

وبفرط السنا تفوق الغزاله

With the softness of velvet she veils her cheek,

And with the radiance of her teeth outshines gazelles.

قلت اذ مد شعرها لي ظلالا

اسبغ الله لي عليها ظلالة

When her hair cast its shade over me I said,

May God let its shade linger over me.

ليت شعري مع الهوى كيف مالت

ولها القد شاهد بالعداله

If only my hair could know where her love strayed,

While her form bears witness to her fairness.

لست انسى وقولها انت سال

قلت روحي ومهجتي لا محاله

I won't forget her words, "You, ask!"

I said, "My soul and passion belong to none but you."

كم محب بدمعه قد اتاها

سائلا وهي لا تجيب سؤاله

How many a lover has come to her,

Questioning while she answers no questions.

حين اضحى بخدها المسك خالا

قلت رفقا بمهجة الصب خاله

When the musk on her cheek became a mole,

I said, "Be gentle with the lover's passion, O mole!"

رشقتني من لحظها بسهام

بعدما جردت عليّ نصاله

She shot me with arrows from her glances,

After she had unsheathed their blades against me.

سالم القلب في الهوى مقلتيها

فانثنى قدها يروم قتاله

My heart bid safety to her in love,

So her slender shape set out to fight it.

آه من قدها اما لفؤادي

شافع من حديث واش اماله

Ah! That slender shape, would that

My words could intercede on behalf of my heart!

يا لقومي ما للعذول ومضنى

بذل الروح في هواها ومالة

Oh my people, why did my reproacher persist

Sacrificing my soul in love and devotion?

انا ان احسنت وان هي اسائت

ليس دمعي برقا على من اساله

If I do good and she does evil,

My tears are no lightning against her.

عاذل الصب خل عنك ودمعي

فعلى الخد قد كفى ما جرى له

Leave off reproaching a lover, and let my tears be,

For what has flowed onto my cheek suffices him.

فهي شمس تطلعت من خباها

وعليها من البراقع هاله

She is a sun that rose from its hiding place,

Veiled by coverings that glow like halos.

رأت البدر في الكمال فأبدت

واضحا بالسنا تريه كماله

Seeing the full moon in its perfection

She smiled, showing it the lustre of her teeth.

حاولت زورتي فنمّ عليها

قرطها في الدجى ومسك الغلاله

I tried my luck but sleep weighed down her earring,

And musk wafted from her necklace in the darkness.

ثم لما ان سلمت اذكرتني

مدح من سلمت عليه الغزاله

But when she bid me farewell, she remembered me—

Praise from one fair bid farewell is praise indeed!

خاتم الانبياء والرسل حقا

من اتى بالهدى وأدى الرساله

The seal of prophets and messengers in truth,

The one who brought guidance and fulfilled the message.

ناسخ بالكتاب امي خط

ليس يحوى لوح الوجود مثاله

He superseded with the Book, though an unschooled Bedouin,

The realm of existence cannot contain his likeness.

من سما قدره ونال مقاما

لم يكن غيره من الرسل ناله

He who esteems his worth and attains his station

No messenger before him attained the like.

وحمى الدين بالسيوف المواضى

ومحا عصبة الهوى والضلاله

He protected the faith with shining swords

And erased the ties of passion and misguidance.

ولاهل القليب ازرى ببدر

ولكل منهم اراه وباله

For the people of hearts he revealed a full moon,

And showed each of them their state and condition.

واتى الفتح آية النصر يتلو

عندما عاينت قريش قتاله

And he brought the opening, sign of victory, reciting

When the Quraysh saw their own destruction.

وله البدر شق نصفين جهرا

وكفى آية بها ودلاله

To him the moon split in two openly,

A miracle sufficient as proof and sign.

واحتشاما لاجله الشمس ردت

بعد ما اسبل الظلام حباله

Out of reverence the sun folded its spreading,

After darkness had let down its coils.

والعصا اورقت بلمس يديه

وزها عودها ومدّ وزلاله

The staff bloomed at his touch,

And the dry wood sprouted leaves and droplets.

واتته الاشجار حين دعاها

وسعت عاجلا بغير اطاله

The trees came to him when he called them,

And eagerly hastened without delay.

لو اليه دعا الاهلة جاءت

ولودّت بأن تكون نعاله

If he called on the gods they would come to him

And conceive of being his shoes.

وهو في قومه حسيب نسيب

ذو فخار وسؤدد واصاله

Among his people he is the trusted, the well-born,

Of pride, benefaction and noble lineage.

وهو من اشرف القبائل قوما

وهو من خير عنصر وسلالة

He is of the noblest clan of people,

And the best stock and pedigree.

وهو بر بنا رؤف رحيم

ومن الجود ان يبر عياله

Gentle and kind to us, his dependents,

Bounteous lavishly to provide for his family.

لا تقسه بالبحر يوم نواله

يعجز البحر ان يضاهي نواله

Do not compare him to the sea on the day of his bounty,

The sea falls short of rivaling his bounty.

واذا ما شكا له الفقر راج

قال لا فقر تختشي واناله

When want complained to him he would give relief,

Saying, "Poverty, do not dread destitution."

يا امام الهدى ويا من عليه

من طراز الوقار ابهى جلاله

O Imam of guidance! O finest embodiment

Of dignity and most splendid majesty!

كن شفيعي مما جنيت قديما

زمن اللهو والصبا والجهالة

Be my intercessor for the sins of my past,

The days of frivolity, youth and ignorance.

فعليك الصلاة في كل وقت

وزمان مضى وفي كل حاله

Upon you blessings at every time,

Past, present, and in every circumstance.

وعلى آلك الكرام وصحب

قد سموا بالوفا وصدق المقاله

And on your noble family and companions,

Exalted in loyalty and truth of speech.

ما حدا في العراق بالركب حاد

ولنحو الحجاز شد رحاله

No caravan bound east or west departed

Without seeking the Hejaz and heading there.