1. لئن أصبحت محروماً

    نوالك غير مرزوقِهْ

    If indeed I have become deprived

    of your bounty, not granted it,

  2. على أني صريح الود

    د قدماً غير ممذوقِهْ

    though my affection is sincere,

    long-standing and unadulterated—

  3. لكم من وامق في النا

    س لا يحظى بموموقه

    how many a lover among the people

    fails to win the one he loves!

  4. ولست بأول العشا

    ق لم يسعد بمعشوقه

    And I am not the first of lovers

    to find no happiness with his beloved.

  5. أرى الضيم ذلاً على أنني

    أرى النصر من صاحب المن رقّا

    I regard oppression as humiliation, yet I

    regard help from one who flaunts his favors as slavery.

  6. فلا تسأل النصر إلا امرأً

    تراه بنصرك يقضيك حقا

    So ask for help only from a man

    you see as paying you your due by helping you.

  7. لساء اتقاؤك إمّا اتقَيْ

    ت أن تستضام بأن تسترقا

    Poor indeed is your precaution, if you guard

    against being wronged by being enslaved.

  8. فكن للمظالم حمّالة

    وعش عيش حر ملقَّىً موقّى

    So be a bearer of injustices,

    and live a free man's life, exposed yet protected.