مَنْ لاَ مِني لوْ أنه قد أبصَرا

مَنْ لاَ مِني لوْ أنه قد أبصَرا

مَا ذقته أضْحى به متَحيرا

مَا ذقته أضْحى به متَحيرا

Whoever blamed me, had he seen

He who has no experience of what I feel, if he could but see

what I tasted, would have become bewildered by it,

What I have tasted he would wander distracted and lost.

وَغدا يَقولُ لِصحبه إِن أنتُمو

وَغدا يَقولُ لِصحبه إِن أنتُمو

أنكرتُموا مَا بي أتيتمْ مُنكرا

أنكرتُموا مَا بي أتيتمْ مُنكرا

and would have said to his companions: If you

And in the morning he would say to his friends, “If you

deny what is in me, you have committed a wrong.

Deny what has happened to me, you deny what is plain to see.”

شَذت أمُورُ القوم عن عَاداتِهم

شَذت أمُورُ القوم عن عَاداتِهم

فَلأجل ذاك يقال سحر مُفترى

فَلأجل ذاك يقال سحر مُفترى

The doings of the folk have departed from their customary ways;

The affairs of the tribe have strayed from their usual ways;

so for that reason, it is called fabricated sorcery.

So for that they call it witchcraft and charge me falsely.