يا مَن به أنا مُغرَمُ
ارحم فمثلِيَ يُرحَمُ
O you whom I adore
Have mercy, for one like me deserves mercy
لم يَبقَ فيّ بقيَّةٌ
أُجفى بها أو أُظلم
Nothing remains in me
With which I can be consoled or wronged
هذا زَمانُك لو قَبلـ
ـتَ وكُنت ممن يُنعِم
This is your time, if only
You would accept and be one who favors
ما الحُسن إِلّا دولةٌ
محبوبةٌ تُستَغنَم
Beauty is nothing but a state
Beloved, to be seized
فإذا انقَضت وأضَعتَها
جهلاً بها فستَندم
And when it passes and you miss it
Ignorantly, you will regret
أنا قد نصحتُ وبعد ذا
نفسي فِدى مَن يَفهم
I have advised and after this
My soul is sacrificed for one who understands
واللَه حسبي مَن يَعو
قك إنما هي أسهُم
By God, it is enough for me, one who perceives
Your blindness, though to me it’s but arrows
ومن العِذار يُخال رَقـ
ـماً وهو عندي أرقم
And the excuse which appears like
A number, yet to me it's unnumbered
باللَه خبِّرني أوص
لي في الكِتاب محرَّم
For God's sake, advise me or make
Unlawful in scripture what's unlawful
ودَمي حلالٌ ما أرى
يُفتى بهذا مُسلم
And my blood is lawful, I don't see
It would be ruled so by a Muslim
ولقد ذكرتُ زمانَنا
والشَملُ عقدٌ يُنظَم
And I have recalled our time
When companionship was a braided rope
فبكيتُه حتى بكت
أَسفاً عليّ اللُوّم
So I wept for it until I wept from grief
Blame upon me from the blamers
يا حادي الأَظعان قِف
فلعلَّ أن يَتَلَوَّموا
O guide of the most desolate places, stop
Perhaps they will become disillusioned
ولئن أقمتَ بِمُهجتي
حيثُ اغتَدوا أو خيَّموا
And if you stay in my lowlands
Wherever they have pitched their tents or settled
فأرى لواحظَ قاتِلي
كم حيثُ أَلّا يَعلَموا
I see that if my killer were to notice
Wherever they said they knew not
يا جيرَتي بِالمُنحَنى
ما باِختِياري بِنتُم
O my neighbor, with her swaying gait
It was not by my choice that you wronged me
لا أوحش اللَه الحِمى
بِأُهَيل وُدّي مِنكُم
May God not make desolate the protected grounds
With my loving family from you
ما كنتُمُ إلّا النَعيـ
ـم مخلَّداً لو دُمتُم
You were nothing but prosperity
Everlasting, if only you had remained
لا فارَقَتكم مُزنةٌ
تَبكي البِلادَ فَتَبسم
No misfortune parted you
That makes the land weep, then smile
