Claude 2

  1. بك في ملَّة الغَرام اِقتديتُ

    أَتُراني إلى سواكَ اِنتميتُ

    In the doctrine of love, I followed your example

    Do you think I could belong to another but you?

  2. وَهَواكُ الَّذي عليه اِنطويتُ

    لك طَرفي حمىً وَقَلبي بيتُ

    And it is your love that I have wrapped myself in

    My eyes keep your promise, and my heart is your home

  3. فيهما عهدك القَديم خَبيتُ

    تحسبُ القَلبَ عنك مال وملّا

    In them your ancient pact I have hidden

    You reckon the heart is done with you and has turned away

  4. وَصحا بعد سُكره وتخلّى

    لا وَعينيكَ لَستُ مِمَّن تسلّى

    Yet sober again after its drunkenness, and left behind

    No - by your eyes, I'll never be one to abandon

  5. ومن السُكر ما صحوتُ وكلّا

    كَيفَ أَصحو ومِن هواك اِنتشيتُ

    How can I sober up when drunk with love for you?

    I never concealed this passion, which overflowed

  6. ما كَتمتُ الهوى وَفرطَ الهُيام

    بك إلّا وزادَ حرُّ أوامي

    Except it increased the heat of my longing

    And when I confessed my love openly

  7. وإذا فهتُ للوَرى بغَرامي

    بسطَ العاذلون فيك مَلامي

    The censurers stretched out their blame against me

    So I folded up the carpet of acceptance before them

  8. وَبساطَ القبول عنهم طويتُ

    زعم اللائمُ الَّذي قد تعنّى

    The critic who turned against me supposed

    That I had lost myself in fancy and illusion

  9. أَنَّني قد سَلوتُ وهماً وظنّا

    وَفؤادي أَدرى بما قد أَجنّا

    Yet my heart knows better what it has garnered

    How can the meaning intend to neglect you

  10. كَيفَ يَنوي السلوَّ عنك المُعنى

    يا مُنى القلب وهو في الحَيِّ مَيتُ

    You, the wish of my heart, while it still beats?

    Long has absence been, and the distance still binds me

  11. قَد أَطالَ الفراقُ والبين أَسري

    وَقَضى لي عنكَ البعادُ بهجرِ

    And ordained for me, apart from you, estrangement

    And guided me to patience, though it does not know

  12. وَهَداني للصَبرِ من ليس يَدري

    وَضلالٌ عن مثل حسنكَ صَبري

    That my patience in the absence of your beauty is misguidance

    So to my heart its aberration, that I thought myself guided

  13. فَلِقَلبي الهَنا بأَنّي اِهتديتُ

    هامَ قَلبي عَلى حماك ولُبّي

    My heart was infatuated with your love, and my reason

    Became, in its passion for you, infatuation

  14. وَغدا العَقلُ في هَواكَ يُلبّي

    رمتُ قرباً فمذ خطيت بقرب

    I drew near, having set out to draw near to you

    And my heart circled around you, O Kaaba of Loyalty

  15. بك يا كعبةَ الوفا طافَ قَلبي

    وَبدا بارقُ الصَفا فَسَعيتُ

    And the brilliant dawn of intimacy shone, so I hastened