ألاAh! منwho لنفسٍfor a soul مستخفٍshaken جليدهاits fortitude
ألا من لنفسٍ مستخفٍ جليدها
وسلمىand Salma مبينevident بخلهاher withholding وصدودهاand her aversion
وسلمى مبين بخلها وصدودها
Ah, who will aid a soul whose fortitude is shaken,
Alas, who has a frivolous soul
while Salma's withholding and aversion are plain?
Whose stinginess and aloofness have been made clear
أحقاًis it truly so? عبادservants اللَهGod أنthat لستI am not ناظراًgazing
أحقاً عباد اللَه أن لست ناظراً
إلىtoward الهضبthe hills إلاwithout عاودreturned to النفسthe soul عيدهاits recurring sorrow
إلى الهضب إلا عاود النفس عيدها
Is it true, servants of God, that I never gaze
Indeed, servants of God, am I not perceiving
toward the hills without my soul's old sorrow returning,
When I look upon the hillock, my soul renews its feast
وإلاand without استهلتstreamed عبرةٌa tear بعدafter زفرةٍa sigh
وإلا استهلت عبرةٌ بعد زفرةٍ
يصدعrends قلبيmy heart أنthat يُلِمَّcome upon صعودهاits rising
يصدع قلبي أن يُلِمَّ صعودها
and without a tear streaming after a sigh,
Else a tear flows after a sigh
whose rising, when it comes, rends my heart?
That rends my heart when it dares ascend
وإنand although كنتI was قدalready علقتI became attached منfrom among ساكنa dweller الحمىthe protected pasture
وإن كنت قد علقت من ساكن الحمى
مكذبةًone who belies وعدىmy promise صدوقاًtrue وعيدهاher threat
مكذبةً وعدى صدوقاً وعيدها
And though I have fallen for a dweller of the protected pasture,
Though I have been accused by the dweller of passion
one who belies my promise, yet whose threat is true,
Of false promises, by the truthful and his oath
ولوand even if طلبتshe asked منيfrom me علىdespite ذاكthat فيin الهوىlove
ولو طلبت مني على ذاك في الهوى
زيادةan increase حبlove لمnot أجدI would find ماanything أزيدهاI could add for her
زيادة حب لم أجد ما أزيدها
and even if, despite that, she asked me in love
And if the passion asked me after that for
for greater love, I would find no more to give her.
More love, I would find nothing to increase it
ألاAh! قاتلmay He curse اللَهGod الهوىlove بعدafter نظرةٍa glance
ألا قاتل اللَه الهوى بعد نظرةٍ
أفادكهاgave it to you يومon the day of اللقاءmeeting مفيدهاits giver
أفادكها يوم اللقاء مفيدها
Ah, may God curse love after a glance
Alas! May God destroy passion after a glance
that its giver granted you on the day of meeting.
That benefited you the day you received it
فأخفيتso I concealed منfrom أصحابيmy companions الشوقlonging بعدماafter
فأخفيت من أصحابي الشوق بعدما
جرىflowed منfrom جفونeyelids المقلتينthe two eyes فريدهاtheir pearls
جرى من جفون المقلتين فريدها
So I hid my longing from my companions, after
So I hid the longing from my companions after
the pearls of my two eyes had streamed from their lids.
The only one flowed from my blinking eyelids
وكانand was بكاءweeping العينthe eye منfrom قبلbefore ماwhat يرىis seen
وكان بكاء العين من قبل ما يرى
علىover أمUmm (mother of) عمروAmr عادةًa habit تستعيدهاit renews it
على أم عمرو عادةً تستعيدها
And the eye's weeping, before these tears were seen,
And the tears of the eyes before seeing
over Umm Amr, was a habit it would renew,
Were a habit for Umm Amr I would renew
لياليon nights يدعونيcalls me الهوىlove فأجيبهso I answer it
ليالي يدعوني الهوى فأجيبه
ودنيايand my world لمnot يخلقbecome worn عليfor me جديدهاits freshness
ودنياي لم يخلق علي جديدها
on nights when love called me and I answered it,
At nights, desire calls me and I answer
while my world's freshness had not yet worn thin for me.
And my world, nothing new has been created in it
فأصبحتso I have come to قدalready حلأتI drove away عنaway from منهلthe watering place الصباyouth
فأصبحت قد حلأت عن منهل الصبا
صواديthirsty ones منfrom قلبيmy heart ظماءparched أذودهاI drive them away
صوادي من قلبي ظماء أذودها
So now I have driven from youth's watering place
So I became having abandoned from the spring of youth
my heart's thirsty ones—parched ones I drive away.
Thirsty valleys of my heart I protect
Sol 6.1