ياOh ليتكمif only you (plural)
يا ليتكم
أنthat تسمعواyou hear (plural)
أن تسمعوا
Oh, if only you
Oh, if only you would
would listen
Hear what you said
ماwhat قلتموyou said (plural)
ما قلتمو
هit (object suffix) أوor تعواyou understand (plural)
ه أو تعوا
to what you said,
Or comprehend
or understand it!
Perhaps you would
فعساكمُso perhaps you (plural)
فعساكمُ
أنthat تهجعواyou sleep or rest (plural)
أن تهجعوا
Then perhaps you
Retract your blame
would rest
Of one who does not malign
عنfrom لومٍblaming منone who
عن لومٍ من
لاnot يشنعhe reviles
لا يشنع
from blaming one
Sleep overcame rancor
who does not revile.
And they became cordial
نمَّspread malicious gossip الوشاthe slanderers (word beginning)
نمَّ الوشا
ةُending of 'the slanderers' ونواعواand clamored (reading uncertain)
ةُ ونواعوا
The slanderers carried tales
To what they had maligned
and clamored [reading uncertain],
And rallied around
ماwhat شنعوthey maligned
ما شنعو
هُit (object suffix) وشيعواand they spread abroad
هُ وشيعوا
over what they maligned
When rallying against me
and spread abroad,
And were unjust
لمَّاwhen عليagainst (pronoun follows)
لمَّا علي
يَme (attached pronoun) تجمعواthey gathered together
يَ تجمعوا
when against me
And hurt
they gathered,
With injustice and lies that deter
وتظلمواand they complained of injustice
وتظلموا
وتوجعواand they lamented pain
وتوجعوا
and complained of wrong
My masters
and lamented their pain—
Put me aside
ظلماًunjustly وكذand falsehood (word beginning)
ظلماً وكذ
باًending of 'falsehood' يردعis checked (passive reading)
باً يردع
unjustly, and with falsehood
Or regard the signs of affliction or leave
that should be checked.
Those among you
ياO سادتيmy masters
يا سادتي
عنيfrom me ضعواlay aside (plural command)
عني ضعوا
O my masters,
Who entrusted
lift from me
What they did
وِقرَthe burden الملاblame (word beginning)
وِقرَ الملا
مةِending of 'blame' أوor دعواleave (plural command)
مةِ أو دعوا
the burden of
And maligned
blame, or leave
Return to me and come back
مَنthose who فيكمُamong you (plural)
مَن فيكمُ
قدalready أودعواthey deposited
قد أودعوا
those who among you
Let not your hearing
have planted
Mislead you
ماwhat صنَّعواthey fabricated
ما صنَّعوا
هُit (object suffix) وشنَّعواand they made scandalous
هُ وشنَّعوا
what they fabricated
Do not despair
and made scandalous.
Or be in despair
عودواreturn (plural command) إليto (pronoun follows)
عودوا إلي
يme (attached pronoun) وإرجعواand return (plural command)
ي وإرجعوا
Come back to me
I am not misled by you
and return;
Nor am I pretentious
لاnot يَخدعنْdeceive (emphatic)
لا يَخدعنْ
كمyou (plural object suffix) مِسمَعan ear
كم مِسمَع
let no ear
In what you see me do
deceive you.
And my heart is infatuated
لاnot تجزعواbe dismayed (plural)
لا تجزعوا
أوor فاجزعواthen be dismayed (plural command)
أو فاجزعوا
Do not be dismayed,
With praising those
or then be dismayed;
Who intercede
إنيindeed I بكمby you (plural)
إني بكم
لاnot أُخدَعI am deceived
لا أُخدَع
I, by you,
For us and in whom is hope
am not deceived,
Who comes from it
حقّاًtruly ولاand not
حقّاً ولا
أتصنَّعI pretend
أتصنَّع
truly; nor
To elevate us
do I pretend
And repel enmity from us
فيماin what تروyou see (plural; verb beginning)
فيما ترو
نيme (object suffix) أصنعI do
ني أصنع
in what you see
My advice to you is to hasten
me do.
And knock on the door of the Merciful
والقلبand the heart منfrom (pronoun follows)
والقلب من
نيme (attached pronoun) مولَعpassionately devoted
ني مولَع
And the heart within
For it is hope
me is absorbed
And refuge
فيin مدحpraising منher who
في مدح من
تتشفَّعshe intercedes
تتشفَّع
in praising her who
intercedes
فيناon our behalf وفيand in (pronoun follows)
فينا وفي
هاher (attached pronoun) المَطمعthe object of hope
ها المَطمع
for us; and in
her lies hope.
مَنhe who جاءcame مِنfrom
مَن جاء مِن
هاher (attached pronoun) يَرفعhe lifts
ها يَرفع
He who came from
her lifts
عنّاfrom us العناsuffering (word beginning)
عنّا العنا
ءending of 'suffering' ويَدفعand he repels
ء ويَدفع
suffering from us
and drives it away.
نُصحيmy counsel لكمto you (plural)
نُصحي لكم
أنthat تُسرعواyou hasten (plural)
أن تُسرعوا
My counsel to you
is to make haste,
ولِبابِand at the door of مرMary (name beginning)
ولِبابِ مر
يمَending of 'Mary' فاقرعواthen knock (plural command)
يمَ فاقرعوا
and at the door of
Mary, then knock,
فهيfor she الرجاhope
فهي الرجا
والمفزعand the refuge
والمفزع
for she is hope
and refuge.
Partial English translation: 40 of 54 Arabic lines translated.