طَلَعَ الحسنُ من جبيِنَك شَمسا

طَلَعَ الحسنُ من جبيِنَك شَمسا

قُرصُها النونُ والبسيطةُ خَدَّا

قُرصُها النونُ والبسيطةُ خَدَّا

Beauty rose from your brow as a sun.

Beauty has risen like the sun from your forehead,

Its disk is the nūn, and the earth a cheek.

Its disk is the letter noon, and your cheek the letter ba.

فهيَ في لَونها مُذَابُ نُضَارٍ

فهيَ في لَونها مُذَابُ نُضَارٍ

مِثلما نورُ شَمسِه إذ تَبَدَّى

مِثلما نورُ شَمسِه إذ تَبَدَّى

For in its hue it is molten pure gold,

In its color it is melted freshness,

like the light of its sun when it appeared.

Like the light of its sun when it begins to shine.

أذهلَ العاشقينَ منها قَوامٌ

أذهلَ العاشقينَ منها قَوامٌ

ما حَكى الغُصنُ في تَثنِّيه قَدَّا

ما حَكى الغُصنُ في تَثنِّيه قَدَّا

Her figure bewildered the lovers;

It has dazzled lovers with a figure,

no bough in its swaying matched her form.

That the bending branch cannot describe.

أُوديتُ إن قلبي في هُوَّةِ ال

أُوديتُ إن قلبي في هُوَّةِ ال

حبِّ هَوىَ فارحَمِي المُتيمَّ عَبدا

حبِّ هَوىَ فارحَمِي المُتيمَّ عَبدا

I am undone! Indeed, my heart, into the abyss of

I would be destroyed if my heart in the abyss of love,

love, has fallen; so have mercy on the love-stricken slave.

Fell in love, so have mercy on the devoted slave.

ما كفَى في الشفَاعةِ الحَسنُ الفر

ما كفَى في الشفَاعةِ الحَسنُ الفر

دُ ورِضوَانُ جنَّةِ الخلدِ وُدَّا

دُ ورِضوَانُ جنَّةِ الخلدِ وُدَّا

Al-Hasan the peerless did not suffice in intercession,

Beauty and the pleasure of paradise were not enough,

nor Riḍwān of the eternal garden, to win affection.

To mediate, nor the bliss of the eternal garden.