قالت معذبتي والروض مبتسمٌ

قالت معذبتي والروض مبتسمٌ

لها ونور محياها يناظره

لها ونور محياها يناظره

My tormentress said, while the garden smiled

She said, while the garden smiled at her torment,

at her, and the radiance of her face rivaled it:

And the light of her life gazed at it,

أللنعيم الذي في الدوح بلبله

أللنعيم الذي في الدوح بلبله

وافيت أم للذي في الساق طائره

وافيت أم للذي في الساق طائره

“Is it for the bliss whose nightingale is in the trees

"Is this the bliss whose nightingale is in the branches,

that you have come, or for that whose bird is in the stem?”

Or have you attained what is in the chalice of the wine?

فقلت واللَه يا روض الملاحة ما

فقلت واللَه يا روض الملاحة ما

وافيت إلّا لمن في الريق كوثره

وافيت إلّا لمن في الريق كوثره

I said, “By God, O garden of beauty, I have not

So I said, by Allah, o garden of sweetness, you have not

come except for the one whose Kawthar is in the saliva,

Attained save to one in whose saliva is Kauthar.

والنهد رمانه واللحظ نرجسه

والنهد رمانه واللحظ نرجسه

والخد تفاحه والخال عنبره

والخد تفاحه والخال عنبره

whose pomegranate is the breast and whose narcissus is the glance,

With breasts like pomegranates, glances like narcissi,

whose apple is the cheek and whose ambergris is the beauty mark.”

Cheeks like apples, and moles like ambergris."