1. أنا والحبيب ومن يلوم ثلاثةٌ

    لهم بديع الحب أصبح ينتمي

    I, the beloved, and the one who reproaches make three.

    Love’s rhetorical artistry has come to belong to them.

  2. فلي الجناس لأن دمعي عن دمي

    يجري ألست تراه مثل العندم

    So mine is wordplay, for my tears from my blood

    Flow—do you not see them like dragon’s-blood resin?

  3. وله مطابقة التواصل بالقلا

    ولعاذليه لزوم ما لم يلزم

    And his is antithesis: union paired with aversion.

    And to his reproachers belongs adherence to what is not required.