بارفضاض الدموع جرّا السفاه

أجب الردع من ملام النواهي

With the outpouring of tears, ignorance dragged along folly

With flowing tears dragged forth by folly,

Heeding the deterrent from blaming prohibitions

Answer the rebuke of those who blame and forbid.

فبنات الجفون أصدق خبراً

عن جوى القلب من بنات الشفاه

For the daughters of the eyelids are more truthful

For the daughters of the eyelids tell a truer tale

About the innermost feelings of the heart than the daughters of the lips

Of the heart's passion than the daughters of the lips.

يا خليليّ عرجا وارثيا لي

من صبابات نفسي الميلاه

O my friend, make haste to me as an heir

O my two friends, turn aside and lament for me,

Of the inclinations of my passionate soul

For the yearnings of my wayward soul.

ان مرآى أربع البير أقوت

بعد جمل من أمهات الدواهي

Verily the vision of the four wells has grown stronger

Truly, the sight of the quarters of the well, now desolate

After a period of abstinence from lustful desires

After Jaml, is the mother of all calamities.

فلئن ظلت الديار معنّى

من عقابيل لوعة هي ما هي

And if the home remains a source

So if I remain by the ruins, tormented

Of agonizing sorrow, it remains as it is

By the aftershocks of a grief that passes description,

ورياض الصبا ذبلنَ وصارت

غُدُرُ اللهو آجنات المياه

And the gardens of youth have withered and become

And the gardens of youth have withered away,

The treacheries of frivolity, murky waters

And the pools of pleasure have turned to stagnant waters,

لبما قد شربت كاسا دهاقا

جنبة الربيع من كؤوس الملاهي

Because I have drunk a cup of anguish

For how often I drank an overflowing cup

Next to the exuberance of the spring, from cups of pleasures

In the bloom of spring, from the chalices of delight.