أمهذب الذين استمع من عاتب

لولا ودادك لم يفه بعتاب

O you who rebuke the one who listened from the reproacher

If not for your love, he would not understand the reproach

أتطيع في الدهر وهو كما ترى

يقضي علي بفرقة الأحباب

Do you obey time as you see

It judges me by separating dear friends

أمللتني وجعلت سكرك حجة

ونهضت أم لم تستحل شرابي

You have wearied me and made your intoxication an excuse

And got up, did you not make my wine lawful?

قسما لئن لم تأتني متنصلاً

متبرعا بالعذر والإعتاب

I swear if you do not come to me apologizing

Justifying with the excuse and reproach

لأحرمنّ الخندريس وأغتدي

متنمسا بالماء والمحراب

I will forbid myself wine and take to asceticism

Bathing myself with water at the prayer niche

وتبوء معتمداً بإثم تنسكي

وبعابه أعظم به من عاب

And incur the sin of my asceticism

And its shame is greater for me than shame