وَما حائِماتٌ حُمنَ يَوماً وَلَيلَةً

عَلى الماءِ يَخشَينَ العِصِيَّ حَوارِ

And the camels have not wandered for a day and night

Around water fearing the conversation of a stick

عَوافِيَ لا يَصدُرنَ عَنهُ لِوِجهَةٍ

وَلا هُنَّ مِن بَردِ الحِياضِ دَوانِ

Wandering camels that do not leave for any destination

Nor are they, from the cold of the cisterns, crazed

يَرَينَ حَبابَ الماءِ وَالمَوتُ دونَهُ

فَهُنَّ لِأَصواتِ السُقاةِ رَوانِ

They see the foam of water and death beside it

So they are, to the voices of water bearers, docile

بِأَجهَدَ مِنّي حَرَّ شَوقٍ وَلَوعَةٍ

عَلَيكِ وَلَكِنَّ العَدوَّ عَداني

With more fervent than I, heat of yearning and agony

For you, but the enemy has barred me

خَليلَيَّ إِنّي مَيِّتٌ أَو مُكَلِّمٌ

لُبَينى بِسِرّي فَاِمضِيا وَذَراني

My intimate friend, I am dead or conversing

With the secrets of my heart, so go away and leave me

أَنَل حاجَتي وَحدي وَيا رُبَّ حاجَةٍ

قَضَيتُ عَلى هَولٍ وَخَوفِ جِنانِ

I have attained my need, my love, and o Lord of all needs

I have risen above fear and the madness of love

فَإِنَّ أَحَقَّ الناسِ أَلّا تُجاوِزوا

وَتَطَّرِحا مَن لَو يَشاءُ شَفاني

For the most deserving people not to forget

And to abandon one who if he wished could cure me

وَمَن قادَني لِلمَوتِ حَتّى إِذا صَفَت

مَشارِبُهُ السُمَّ الزُعافَ سَقاني

And he who led me to death until when its bowed drinking vessels

Poured for me the deadly poison to drink