1. إن صحا القلبُ أو غفا

    فهو للحب والوفا

    Whether the heart wakes or slumbers,

    it belongs to love and fidelity.

  2. لم يزل يسلس القياد

    لمن طبعُه الجفا

    It has not ceased to yield the reins

    to one whose nature is coldness.

  3. كلما قلتُ قد سلا

    عنه غالي وأسرفَا

    Whenever I said it had forgotten

    him, it went to extremes and exceeded all bounds.

  4. يا حبيبي أما رحمت

    من الشوق مدنفا

    O my beloved, have you not pitied

    one gravely ill with longing?

  5. نهنه الوجد قلبه

    وعلى الموت اشرفا

    Passion has subdued his heart,

    and he has reached the brink of death.

  6. لا تكن قاسي الطباع

    وبالوصل مجحِفا

    Do not be harsh by nature,

    nor unjust in granting union.

  7. وإذا الدهر أسعفا

    لا تضع ساعة الصفا

    And when fortune lends its aid,

    do not waste the hour of bliss.

  8. سيحول الصبا غدا

    وترى الحسن اكلفا

    Youth will change tomorrow,

    and you will see beauty blemished.

  9. وإذا ما مضى الصبا

    وإذا حسنه عفا

    And when youth has passed,

    and when its beauty has faded,

  10. وإذا لم تعد ترى

    أهيف القدّ أهيفا

    and when you no longer see

    a slender-waisted figure still slender,

  11. عندها يدرك الذي

    جارَ كم كان مسرفا

    then he will realize—the one who

    was unjust—how excessive he had been.

  12. في غدٍ يذكرُ الهوى

    ويطيلُ التلَهَّفا

    Tomorrow he will remember love,

    and prolong his regretful yearning.