Claude 2

  1. ما للوشاة وماليه

    وصل المليح حباليه

    Why do the slanderers care, and what's it to them?

    The beloved has arrived with his ropes.

  2. قد كان بالأمس

    القريب وأمه بحياليه

    Just yesterday,

    He was nearby with his mother watching me.

  3. إن المليح إذا دنا

    تلك الليالي حالية

    When the beloved draws near,

    Those nights become my state.

  4. وإذا الحبيب سلا المحب

    ترى المودة بالية

    And if the beloved asks his lover,

    You'll see the affection is nil.

  5. أقر الحبيب سلاميه

    نفسي فدته وماليه

    The beloved bid me peace,

    My soul ransoms him and what's mine.

  6. شخص الحبيب وذاته

    واللّه عندي غالية

    The beloved's figure and self

    By God, are so dear to me.

  7. أقسمت بالأدب الغزير

    قريضه وكماليه

    I swore by the abundant poetry,

    Its couplets and its rhymes,

  8. أن الحبيب عن اليم

    ين مكانه وشماليه

    That the beloved, to the right of me

    Is his place and to my left.