1. هزني الشوق إلى تريم

    قرية السادة الكرام

    Longing for Tarim stirred me,

    The village of the noble masters.

  2. كلما شمت في عتيم

    بارقا زادني هيام

    Whenever, in the darkness of night, I glimpsed

    A flash of lightning, it deepened my rapture.

  3. خلته جوهرا نظيم

    في لما حالي الوشام

    I imagined it a string of jewels

    Within the dusky lips of the one with lovely tattoos,

  4. أو سنا خدّه الرخيم

    مفضح البدر في التمام

    Or the radiance of his tender cheek,

    Putting the full moon to shame at its fullest.

  5. الهوى جوهره مشق

    ويل من فيه قد علق

    Love's essence is hardship;

    Woe to whoever has become entangled in it.

  6. يا مسيكين من عشق

    O poor little soul who has fallen in love!

  7. لم يزل مغرم سقيم

    ليس يهنا له منام

    He remains love-stricken and ailing;

    He finds no restful sleep.

  8. ودّلو طاعه النسيم

    أن يبلغ له السلام

    He wished the breeze would obey him

    And carry a greeting of peace to him.

  9. نود بلغ تحيتي

    باهي المنظر الجميل

    Breeze, convey my greeting

    To the beautiful one, splendid to behold.

  10. واخبره عن بليتي

    قل له عاشقك نحيل

    And tell him of my affliction;

    Say to him: 'Your lover is gaunt.'

  11. هو دوائي وعلتي

    ساجي الأحوم الكحيل

    He is my cure and my affliction,

    The tranquil one with dark, kohl-lined eyes.

  12. ما على القلب أن يهيم

    في المحبه ولا ملام

    The heart is not at fault for being enraptured

    In love; there is no blame.

  13. عاذلي لا تلمني

    لا يداخلك إني

    My reproacher, do not blame me;

    Do not imagine that I

  14. عن إراداتي أنثنى

    Would turn away from my desires.

  15. الهوى خطبه عظيم

    يغوى الرجح الفهام

    Love's ordeal is immense;

    It leads the wise and discerning astray.

  16. ربّ خالي الحشا سليم

    ذابه وأشغله وهام

    Many a person, carefree and unharmed,

    It has melted and engrossed him, and he has become love-struck.

  17. هل تقول عاد وقتنا

    ذي تقضي لنا يعود

    Do you think our time might once more—

    That time gone by—return to us?

  18. نبلغ السول والمنا

    بالنقا وردي الخدود

    May we attain our desire and our hopes

    At the dunes, with the rosy-cheeked one,

  19. خشفي الجيد والرنا

    الرضى الشفي الودود

    Fawn-like in neck and gaze,

    The gracious, compassionate, loving one.

  20. شوقه مقعد مقيم

    شهر عندي كألف عام

    Longing for him is crippling and unceasing;

    A month to me is like a thousand years.

  21. عجل الوصل بالحبيب

    واغفر الذنب يا مجيب

    Hasten reunion with the beloved,

    And forgive sin, O Answerer,

  22. بالنبي الهاشمي الحبيب

    Through the beloved Hashemite Prophet,

  23. ذا النهى والحجا الحليم

    صاحب الحوض والمقام

    Endowed with reason and wisdom, the forbearing one,

    Possessor of the Basin and the Station.

  24. هو ملاذي من الجحيم

    واسأله جنة السلام

    He is my refuge from Hell,

    And I ask him for the Garden of Peace.