هَل لَكَ يا مَولايَ في حاجَةٍ

هَل لَكَ يا مَولايَ في حاجَةٍ

لَستَ تُرى مِن بَعدِها عَبدي

لَستَ تُرى مِن بَعدِها عَبدي

Would you, my lord, care for a favor,

Do you have, oh my Master, a need

After which you will not be seen as my slave?

After fulfilling which this slave won't be seen?

ما تَكسِرُ التيهَ وَلا تَنثَني

ما تَكسِرُ التيهَ وَلا تَنثَني

في خَجلَةٍ مِنها وَلا جَهدِ

في خَجلَةٍ مِنها وَلا جَهدِ

It will not break your pride, nor will you bend

It won't tire you out, nor make you bend

In shame over it or from exertion.

Out of embarrassment for it, or effort.

وَلا يَغيضُ الغَيظُ في فِعلِها

وَلا يَغيضُ الغَيظُ في فِعلِها

ما فَوقَ خَدَّيكَ مِنَ الوَردِ

ما فَوقَ خَدَّيكَ مِنَ الوَردِ

Nor will anger, in doing it, diminish

Nor would anger boil within doing it

The roses upon your cheeks.

Above your cheeks made of roses.

وَهيَ إِذا ما شِئتَ سَمَّيتَها

وَهيَ إِذا ما شِئتَ سَمَّيتَها

لِياطَةً وَالأَمرُ مِن عِندي

لِياطَةً وَالأَمرُ مِن عِندي

And, if you wish, you may call it

And if you wished, you could name it

Sodomy—and the proposal comes from me.

Disobedience, though the matter is up to me.