مَنَعَ الحَياةَ مِنَ الرِجالِ وَطيبَها

مَنَعَ الحَياةَ مِنَ الرِجالِ وَطيبَها

حَدَقٌ يُقَلِّبُها النِساءُ مِراضُ

حَدَقٌ يُقَلِّبُها النِساءُ مِراضُ

Life and its sweetness were withheld from men

Life's sweetness is denied men by the eyes

By languid eyes that women turn.

That women turn, examining, upon them.

فَكَأَنَّ أَفئِدَةَ الرِجالِ إِذا رَأوا

فَكَأَنَّ أَفئِدَةَ الرِجالِ إِذا رَأوا

حَدَقَ النِساءِ لِنَبلِها الأَغراضُ

حَدَقَ النِساءِ لِنَبلِها الأَغراضُ

So it is as though men's hearts, when they see

Men's hearts, when they behold the languid eyes

Women's eyes, are targets for their arrows.

Of women, for their glances bright, will yearn.

خَرَجَت إِلَيكَ وَلَم تَكُن خَرّاجَةً

خَرَجَت إِلَيكَ وَلَم تَكُن خَرّاجَةً

فَأُصيبَ صَدعُ فُؤادِكَ المُنهاضُ

فَأُصيبَ صَدعُ فُؤادِكَ المُنهاضُ

She came out to you, though she was not one to go out often;

My heart went out to you, no tax collector;

So the reopened fracture in your heart was struck.

Yet now its pieces lie there, split and burned.