Claude 2

  1. قل لمن يشتكي الأرق

    يا أخا الوجد والقلق

    Tell the one who complains of insomnia,

    O companion of passion and anxiety,

  2. أنا في الحب لا أرى

    مثل حالي ولا أرق

    That in love I see none

    Like my state, nor insomnia.

  3. ايها الشادن الذي

    لي قد نم واسترق

    O you who for me has slept and rested,

    While Satan, my solace,

  4. مه فشيطان سلوتي

    بشهاب الهوى احترق

    With the flame of passion has burned.

    O beard of God, blaming

  5. يا لحى الله عاذلا

    جاء بالافك واختلق

    Came with superstition and nonsense.

    He thought I was his solace,

  6. ظن اني سلوته

    وهواكم فما صدق

    While your love, he did not believe.

    If he came to me openly

  7. انا لو جاء في الملا

    بضروب من الملق

    With kinds of blame,

    I would not have cracked the stick, and from

  8. ما شققت العصا ومن

    انزل الفجر والفلق

    The dawn and daybreak descended.

    By my father in passion a shower

  9. بأبي في الهوى رشا

    لي سهم الجوى رشق

    Upon me an arrow of love shot.

    In it I let flow my tears

  10. فيه اطلقت مدمعي

    فهو يجري على طلق

    As it runs in floods.

    And towards its inclination

  11. ولنحو انعطافه

    جاء عطف على نسق

    Came an inclination in harmony.

    Of soft stature, crescent his cheek,

  12. لين قده قسا

    قمر خده شفق

    Sunset his blushing cheek.

    If dawn saw his cheek,

  13. لو رأى الفجر خده

    منه لانشق وانفلق

    It would split and crack from it.

    Or if the full moon saw his face,

  14. او رأى البدر وجهه

    غاب في التم وانمحق

    It would disappear in the darkness and vanish.

    Or if the branch saw his stature,

  15. او رأى الغصن قده

    لاختفى الغصن في الورق

    The branch would hide in the leaves.

    What harm did his phantom do

  16. ما الذي ضر طيفه

    لو لباب الكرى طرق

    If to the door of the tavern it knocked?