خَليليَّ ما للريح أضحى نسيمُها

خَليليَّ ما للريح أضحى نسيمُها

يذكرني ما قد مضى ونَسيتُ

يذكرني ما قد مضى ونَسيتُ

My two friends, why has the wind’s breeze begun

My beloved, why has the breeze of the wind

to remind me of what has passed and I had forgotten?

Reminded me of what has passed and I forgot

أبعدَ نذير الشيب إذ حلَّ عرضي

أبعدَ نذير الشيب إذ حلَّ عرضي

صَبَوت بأحداق المها وسُبيتُ

صَبَوت بأحداق المها وسُبيتُ

After gray hair’s warning had settled on my cheek,

After the warning of old age settled in my temple

did I grow enamored of oryx eyes and become their captive?

I was youthful in the eyes of longing and was captivated

ولي سكن أغرى بي الحزنَ حسنُه

ولي سكن أغرى بي الحزنَ حسنُه

جريءٌ على قتل المحب مُقيتُ

جريءٌ على قتل المحب مُقيتُ

And I have a beloved whose beauty has set sorrow upon me,

And I have a dwelling that allures me with its beauty of sorrow

bold and able to slay the lover.

Bold in killing the lover I am hated

فيا قمراً أغرى بي النقص واكتسى

فيا قمراً أغرى بي النقص واكتسى

كمالاً ووافي سعده وشقيتُ

كمالاً ووافي سعده وشقيتُ

So, O moon, you have made me wane while clothing yourself

So it was a moon that allured me with its deficiency and wore

in fullness; your fortune is complete, while I am wretched!

Perfection and met its happiness while I was miserable

وليتِ فرقي إذ وليتِ لهائم

وليتِ فرقي إذ وليتِ لهائم

سباه لمَيَّ كالشهد منك وليتُ

سباه لمَيَّ كالشهد منك وليتُ

You rule: so pity, now that you rule, a lovesick wanderer

And if only we separated when I wished

whom your honey-sweet dark lips captivated; I fell under your sway.

Its trouble would not have let me be like honey from you, and oh how I wish

وجودي ببرد الوصل يا جنَّةَ المُنى

وجودي ببرد الوصل يا جنَّةَ المُنى

فأنّي بحَر الوجد منك صُليتُ

فأنّي بحَر الوجد منك صُليتُ

And grant me the coolness of union, O paradise of wishes,

And my existence in the cold of union, O heaven of wishes

for I have been scorched by the heat of longing for you.

For I was frozen in the sea of passion for you