ما احتيالي في ذا الفؤاد الموله

ما احتيالي في ذا الفؤاد الموله

قد محاه حبيبه واحتله

قد محاه حبيبه واحتله

What recourse have I with this love-distraught heart?

What recourse have I for this love-bewildered heart?

Its beloved has effaced it and taken possession of it.

Its beloved has effaced it and taken possession of it.

ولعمري ما الرأي في شأن قلبي

ولعمري ما الرأي في شأن قلبي

حبه قد اعزه واذله

حبه قد اعزه واذله

By my life, what counsel is there concerning my heart,

And by my life, what is to be done about my heart?

when love of him has exalted it and abased it?

Its love has exalted it and abased it.

طار وجدا وعن ملح غرام

طار وجدا وعن ملح غرام

اخذت لوعة التوله كله

اخذت لوعة التوله كله

It soared in ecstasy; and through passion’s charms,

It soared in rapture, and through insistent passion,

the anguish of infatuation seized it utterly.

the burning anguish of infatuation seized it wholly.

وفئام من العواذل طيشا

وفئام من العواذل طيشا

لا يرون الغرام الا لعله

لا يرون الغرام الا لعله

And throngs of reproachers, in their folly,

And a multitude of reproachers, in their folly,

see passionate love only as a malady.

see passion only as prompted by a motive.

اكثروا العذل والملام وقلبي

اكثروا العذل والملام وقلبي

كره العذل والملام وملّه

كره العذل والملام وملّه

They heaped up censure and blame, while my heart

They heaped on reproach and blame, while my heart

hated censure and blame, and wearied of it.

hated reproach and blame, and grew weary of it.

آه والوعتي وزفرة ناري

آه والوعتي وزفرة ناري

لحبيب رأي التباعد خله

لحبيب رأي التباعد خله

Ah! My anguish—and the sigh of my inward fire—

Ah! Alas for my anguish and the sigh of my fire,

for a beloved who has made estrangement his intimate friend.

for a beloved who deemed estrangement his friend.

لا تلمني يا فارغ البال جهلا

لا تلمني يا فارغ البال جهلا

أي خل يرضى يفارق خله

أي خل يرضى يفارق خله

Do not blame me out of ignorance, you whose mind is free of care:

Do not blame me in ignorance, O you of untroubled mind.

what friend would consent to part from his friend?

What friend would consent to part from his friend?