1. يا قمر في لماه جوهر

    وشهد ممزوج صرف خمره

    O moon, in whose dusky lips is a jewel,

    and honey mingled with his pure wine.

  2. كلفني الحبّ فيك أسهر

    وشب في القلب منك جمره

    Love for you has compelled me to stay awake,

    and an ember from you has flared in my heart.

  3. وأسقمني منك طرف أحور

    كحيل مواج فيه فتره

    And your dark-eyed gaze has made me ill,

    kohl-dark and surging, with languor in it.

  4. وأعجبني منك قدّ اسمر

    لكل قلب عليه حسره

    And your tawny figure delighted me,

    for which every heart feels wistful sorrow.

  5. في وجنتيك اللجين والذهب

    والما بين الزهور واللهب

    In your cheeks are silver and gold,

    and water between blossoms and flame.

  6. وثغرك العذب كله عجب

    هل لك في أن تصل وتوجر

    And your sweet mouth is all a marvel.

    Would you grant union and be rewarded,

  7. وتودع العين منك نظره

    إن عذولي عليك أكثر

    and bestow on my eye a glance from you?

    Indeed, my reproacher has said much about you,

  8. فلم تكن له عليّ إمره

    تيم قلبي هواك يا من

    yet he had no authority over me.

    Love for you has enslaved my heart, O you

  9. لقاه جنة وفرقته نار

    كيف بك أسلو وكيف آمن

    whose meeting is paradise and whose parting is fire.

    How can I find solace in you, and how can I feel safe,

  10. وأنت عذري كثير الأعذار

    حبك في القلب قد تمكن

    when you are my excuse, yet full of excuses?

    Love for you has taken firm hold in my heart,

  11. وقد بقلبي عمرت لك دار

    أصلحك اللَه كيف أهجر

    and I have built you a home in my heart.

    May God set you right! How could I forsake you,

  12. ولا لقلبي عليه قدره

    ما الذنب في ذا الجفا وما السبب

    when my heart has no power to do so?

    What fault lies behind this estrangement, and what is the cause?

  13. هل لك في قتل عاشق أرب

    أشكو إلى من علت به الرتب

    Have you any desire to kill a lover?

    I complain to him through whom ranks have risen high,

  14. جوهر سادات آل حيدر

    ومن له الوصف الجميل فطره

    the jewel of the lords of the House of Haydar,

    and whose fine qualities are innate.

  15. إن أبي العيدروس أشهر

    من لم يزده المديح شهره

    Indeed, my father al-Aydarus is the most renowned

    of those to whose fame praise adds nothing.

  16. قلت لقلبي المشوق اني

    لآل يس رقّ مملوك

    I told my yearning heart that I am

    a slave belonging to the House of Ya-Sin.

  17. جوب قليبي فقال زدني

    من ذا فاني فقير صعلوك

    My little heart replied, “Give me more

    of this, for I am a poor pauper.”

  18. عشقه من في تريم فني

    لأن من فيه تبر مسبوك

    Its love for those in Tarim is my art,

    for those within it are cast gold.

  19. اليهم المكرمات تنسب

    ومنهم المجد صار يجتلب

    Noble deeds are ascribed to them,

    and glory has come to be drawn from them.

  20. وفيهم الفضل حل والحسب

    وسيفهم فوق سيف عنتر

    And in them dwell excellence and ancestral honor.

    And their sword surpasses Antar’s sword.

  21. ولا عليهم لبدر نصره

    ولا وحق النبي يظفر

    And Badr has no victory over them,

    nor, by the Prophet’s sanctity, will he succeed

  22. يخرج منها بغير عسره

    in leaving it without hardship.