1. كل يوم أنا من أي

    ري في أمر عجاب

    Every day, because of my penis, I am

    in an astonishing predicament.

  2. ليس يخليني من ه

    م وحزن واكتئاب

    It never leaves me free of worry,

    sorrow, and dejection.

  3. لم يدع لي ذهباً إلا

    رماه بالذهاب

    It left me no gold

    without throwing it away.

  4. وابتدى المشؤوم أن يع

    مل في أمر التباب

    And the ill-omened thing began to work

    at the business of ruin.

  5. هل مجير لي منه

    أهل ودي وصحابي

    Is there anyone to shield me from it,

    my dear friends and companions?

  6. أو وإلا تبت والرح

    من من لعب الكعاب

    Or else I repent, by the Merciful,

    of dalliance with full-breasted maidens.

  7. أنا مبلي من بلايا

    ه بنصب وعذاب

    I am afflicted by its troubles,

    with weariness and torment.

  8. أنا لولاه لألفي

    ت قليل الاضطراب

    Were it not for it, I would be found

    little troubled.

  9. وتجزيت بنزر

    من طعام وشراب

    And I would have made do with a little

    food and drink.

  10. ولما طال انتزاحي

    عن بلادي واغترابي

    And when my absence had grown long,

    far from my homeland, in exile—

  11. لعنة الله عليه

    وبراغيث الكلاب

    God's curse be upon it,

    and the fleas of dogs!

  12. فلكم أوقفني مو

    قف خزي واكتئاب

    For how often it has put me in a position

    of disgrace and dejection!

  13. ولكم أغلقت باباً

    من هواه دون باب

    And how often I have shut one door

    because of its lust, before another door!

  14. رب قد أبليتني من

    ه بمعتوه مصاب

    Lord, through it You have afflicted me

    with a witless, deranged fool.

  15. عينه في كل من د

    ب على وجه التراب

    It has its eye on everyone who crawls

    upon the face of the earth.

  16. ثم لا يرضيه منه

    غير دبر مستطاب

    Then nothing in that creature satisfies it

    but a desirable anus.

  17. وبإحسان تميم

    عذت من عظم مصابي

    And in Tamim's beneficence

    I sought refuge from my grievous affliction:

  18. بالأمير السيد الما

    جد والقرم اللباب

    In the prince, the lord, the noble one,

    and the chief of purest worth,

  19. والهمام المنعم المف

    ضل والبحر العباب

    And the valiant benefactor, the generous one,

    and the surging sea,

  20. والذي لا فرق ما بي

    ن جداه والسحاب

    And he—there is no difference between

    his bounty and the clouds.

  21. تنثني منه إلى ذي

    كرم رحب الجناب

    You turn from him toward one

    of bounty, whose precincts are wide,

  22. رافع دون بني الآ

    مال أستار الحجاب

    Who lifts, before the sons of hope,

    the curtains of seclusion.

  23. لم أزره قط إلا

    بت محمود الإياب

    Never have I visited him

    without a praiseworthy return that night.

  24. ذكره أعذب في الأن

    فس من ذكر الشباب

    His remembrance is sweeter to souls

    than the remembrance of youth.

  25. ولقد رق عن الما

    ء وعن طبع الشراب

    And indeed he is more delicate than water

    and than the very nature of wine:

  26. أكثم في الرأي والفض

    ل وقس في الخطاب

    Aktham in judgment and excellence,

    and Quss in oratory.