لم أقض منك مرادى

لم أقض منك مرادى

ولا شفيت غليلي

ولا شفيت غليلي

I have not gained from you what I desire,

I have not attained my desire from you

nor quenched my burning thirst.

Nor healed my sickness

يا فتنتي في مقامى

يا فتنتي في مقامى

ومحنتي في رحيلي

ومحنتي في رحيلي

O my enchantment when I stay,

O my temptation in my dwelling

and my ordeal when I depart.

And my ordeal in my departure

ضللتُ والحب تيهٌ

ضللتُ والحب تيهٌ

إلى النجاة سبيلي

إلى النجاة سبيلي

I have lost—and love is a wilderness—

I went astray and love is bewilderment

my path to deliverance.

To salvation, my way

فمن سواك نصيري

فمن سواك نصيري

ومن سواك دليلي

ومن سواك دليلي

Who, then, but you is my helper?

So who but you is my ally

And who but you is my guide?

And who but you my guide

أحبّ فيك عذابي

أحبّ فيك عذابي

يا هاجري وذبولي

يا هاجري وذبولي

For your sake I love my torment—

I love in you my torment

O you who forsake me—and my withering.

O you who migrated from me and faded

وتستطيبُ جفوني

وتستطيبُ جفوني

على السهاد عويلى

على السهاد عويلى

And my eyelids savor

And my eyelids relish

my wailing amid sleeplessness.

Weeping on the pillow

يا طيف أنت كتابي

يا طيف أنت كتابي

على النوى ورسولي

على النوى ورسولي

O phantom, you are my letter

O specter you are my book

across the distance, and my messenger.

Of purpose and my messenger

فصف لظلام قلبي

فصف لظلام قلبي

مدامعي ونحولي

مدامعي ونحولي

So describe to my heart's tyrant

So describe to the darkness of my heart

my tears and my wasting away.

My tears and my emaciation

وانقل إليه شكاتي

وانقل إليه شكاتي

في حبه ونحولي

في حبه ونحولي

And convey to him my complaint

And convey to it my complaints

of my love for him and my wasting away,

Of its love and my emaciation

وما جناه رقيبي

وما جناه رقيبي

وما جناه عذولي

وما جناه عذولي

and the wrong my watcher has done,

And what was perpetrated by my watcher

and the wrong my reproacher has done.

And what was perpetrated by my injurer

وصف غليل فؤادي

وصف غليل فؤادي

لريقه المعسول

لريقه المعسول

And describe my heart's burning thirst

Describe the agony of my heart

for his honeyed saliva,

To its sweet saliva

وما تجنُّ ضلوعي

وما تجنُّ ضلوعي

للحظه المكحول

للحظه المكحول

and what my ribs conceal

And what my ribs have perpetrated

for his kohl-darkened glance.

For its intoxicating moment

رباهُ من لأسير

رباهُ من لأسير

مصفّد مكبول

مصفّد مكبول

O Lord, who will aid a captive,

He brought it up as a captive

fettered and shackled,

Shackled and fettered

يهيم بين رسوم

يهيم بين رسوم

من المنى وطلول

من المنى وطلول

who wanders among traces

It raves between traces

of hopes, and ruins?

Of purpose and hopes

حبست نار حشاه

حبست نار حشاه

على غرير ملول

على غرير ملول

The fire in his breast has been confined

It imprisoned the fire of its ardour

to a guileless, fickle one,

On a folded mattress

مصرّد العطف ضارٍ

مصرّد العطف ضارٍ

على العقوق مطول

على العقوق مطول

cold in affection, accustomed

With affection barren and harmful

to unkindness, forever stalling.

To defiance prolonged