1. يا مُطيعَ العَذولِ في عِصياني

    ومُذيقي حَرارَة الهجرانِ

    O you who obey the reproacher in defying me,

    and make me taste the heat of abandonment,

  2. اتَّقي اللَّهَ لا تَرعنِيَ بالصَّد

    دِ وَجازِ الإحسانَ بالإِحسانِ

    fear God; do not frighten me with rejection,

    and repay kindness with kindness.

  3. كيفَ أبقَى عَلى الزَّمانِ وهجرا

    نُكَ ممَّا جَنَت صروفُ الزَّمانِ

    How can I live on through time, when your abandonment

    is among the wrongs wrought by time's vicissitudes?

  4. صرتُ أجفوكَ مُكرَهاً وعلى ال

    حُبِّ دليلٌ من ناظِري ولِساني

    I have come to shun you against my will, yet

    my eye and tongue bear witness to love.

  5. فإِذا عذتُ بالتجلُّدِ عنكُم

    كذَّبتني نواظرُ الأجفانِ

    Whenever I seek refuge from you in fortitude,

    the eyes beneath the lids give me the lie.

  6. كيفَ تَجني ولا تخافُ عقاباً

    وفُؤادي مُعاقبٌ غيرُ جاني

    How can you do wrong and fear no punishment,

    while my heart is punished without being guilty?

  7. خلِّ ما بينَ مقلتَيكَ وقلبي

    فعَلينا يدٌ من السُّلطانِ

    Leave what lies between your two eyes and my heart alone,

    for the sovereign's hand is upon us.

  8. لا تكونَنَّ ثالِثاً لِقَوِيَّي

    نِ فَلو كانَ واحِداً لَكفاني

    Do not become a third beside two mighty ones,

    for even one would have sufficed me.

  9. لكَ واللَّهِ في صَميم فُؤادي

    لذَّةُ الماءِ في فَم العَطشانِ

    Yours, by God, in the very core of my heart,

    is the delight of water in the mouth of the thirsty.