Sol 6.1

  1. طابَ وقْتي في حَبيبِ هُ لَنا

    ذِكْريْ دُخْرِي

    My time is sweet with a beloved who is ours;

    my remembrance is my treasure.

  2. فاسْألُوا مَنْ لاَ لَنا عنْهُ غِنى

    في صَلاحْ أمْري

    So ask him whom we cannot do without

    in setting my affairs right.

  3. أنا هُ شَيْخُ الشَّراب وفي المِلاح

    لَذَّا لِي التَّمْزيق

    I am he, master of wine; and among the fair ones,

    tearing is sweet to me.

  4. السطور سجادتي راحاً براج

    كسروا الابريق

    The written lines are my prayer rug; wine—[final word unclear].

    Break the ewer.

  5. واحمَدوا تَعْربُدي في الاصْطِباح

    يا أُولِي التَّحْقيق

    And praise my drunken revelry at the morning draught,

    O people of realization.

  6. يا تُرَى مَنْ هُ أنَا حتى أنا

    هِمْتُ مِن سُكْري

    Who, I wonder, am I—even I?

    I was lost in rapture from my drunkenness.

  7. سَمَّعُونِي طِيبَ ألحانَ الْغِنَا

    وعَسَى نَدْري

    Let me hear the sweet melodies of song,

    and perhaps I shall know.

  8. بِعْتُ دفَّاسِي ودَلْقي والإزاره

    وبَقيْتْ عُرْيان

    I sold my woolen cloak, my patched robe, and the waist-wrapper,

    and I remained naked.

  9. نتماشَى مائلاً مِنَ الْخُمَار

    وأنا نَشْوانْ

    I walk along, reeling from wine's aftereffects,

    while I am tipsy,

  10. بَيْنَ طاساتٍ وأكْوَاسٍ تُدار

    تُطْرِبُ الأذهانْ

    among bowls and goblets passed around,

    which enrapture minds.

  11. لَيْس لِي أصْلٌ عن الشُّرْبِ غِنى

    هكذا عُمْرِي

    I cannot do without drinking at all;

    such is my life.

  12. فاسْمعُوا يا فُقَارَا يا أُمَرَا

    واكْتُمُوا سِرِّي

    So listen, O poor ones, O princes,

    and conceal my secret.

  13. حَين نَفِقْ يا فقاراً مِنْ سُكْرَتِي

    فَوَّحُوا بالْعُودْ

    When I come to, O poor ones, from my drunkenness,

    scent the air with aloeswood.

  14. وادْفِنُونِي تحت غَرْسِي كَرْمَتي

    مَيِّتاً مَفْقُود

    And bury me beneath the vine I planted,

    dead and gone.

  15. كَفِّنُونِي باسمهَا فَبُغْيَتي

    هُ ابْنَةِ الْعُنْقودْ

    Shroud me in her name, for my desire

    is the daughter of the grape cluster.

  16. واجْعَلُوا أوْراقَها لِي كَفَناً

    واجْعلوا طُهْرِي

    And make her leaves a shroud for me,

    and let my purification be

  17. ماءَها وتحْتها مُبَيَّنَا

    فاحْفِروا قَبْري

    her water; and beneath her, in plain sight,

    then dig my grave.

  18. بِسهامِ التَّيهِ دَعْ بَوشُقُني

    مالَهُ مالِي

    With bewilderment's arrows, let him [shoot at me?].

    What is his is mine.

  19. أنا نَهْواهُ وهُو يَعْشَقُني

    سَلَّمُوا حالِي

    I love him, and he loves me.

    Accept my state.

  20. شاقَنِي لمَّا بَدَا يَنْشَقُني

    نَشْرَهُ الْغالِي

    He stirred my longing when he appeared, letting me breathe

    his precious fragrance.

  21. هُو لِي رُوحٌ أقام الْبدنا

    وهُ بي يسْرِي

    He is a spirit for me that has sustained the body,

    and he flows through me.

  22. لاتعُومُوا تَغْرقُوا ما بَيْننا

    حَوِّدُوا بَحْرِي

    Do not swim: you will drown in what lies between us.

    Turn aside from my sea.

  23. قُلْتُ إِنِّي أبداً أعْشَقُهُ

    وهْوَ لِي يَعْشَق

    I said: I love him forever,

    and he loves me.

  24. وأنا مَغْرِبُهُ مَشْرِقُهُ

    وهو بي أشرق

    And I am his west, his east,

    and through me he shone forth.

  25. في ثناياه ومن يلحقه إِنَّمَا هُ الْحَقْ

    لَوْ تَرَوْا حِينَ تَدَلَّى فدَنَا

    In his folds—and who can reach him? He is none but the Real.

    If only you could see when he descended and drew near,

  26. ساعةَ الذِّكْرِ

    وَمحَتْ محْدَتُنَا إِثْنَتَنا

    at the hour of remembrance,

    and our [unity?] erased our duality,

  27. واخْتَفَى سِرِّي

    and my secret vanished.