أَصبحتُ مفْتُوناً بكُمْ مُدْنَفاً

أَصبحتُ مفْتُوناً بكُمْ مُدْنَفاً

وإنّما بُرْئِي لَمَى فَاتني

وإنّما بُرْئِي لَمَى فَاتني

I have become enamored of you, wasting away.

I have become enamored with you all distraught,

I have become captivated by you, gravely lovesick,

And my only cure is the dusky hue of lips that has eluded me.

Yet my innocence was my undoing.

And my only cure is the dark lips of my tempter.

يا أَمْلحَ النَّاسِ وحقِّ الهوى

يا أَمْلحَ النَّاسِ وحقِّ الهوى

لو كانَ لِي الحُكْمُ لما فَاتَنِي

لو كانَ لِي الحُكْمُ لما فَاتَنِي

O most charming of people, I swear by love:

O fairest of people, in truth of passion

O most charming of people, by the rights of passion,

Had I the authority, it would not have eluded me.

Had I had any say, you'd not have slipped away.

If the judgment were mine, you would not have escaped me.