هل الحبُّ إلاَّ ما أذاب حشا الصبِّ

هل الحبُّ إلاَّ ما أذاب حشا الصبِّ

فإن لم تذبْ فيه فلا خيرَ في الحبِّ

فإن لم تذبْ فيه فلا خيرَ في الحبِّ

Is love anything but what melts the ardent lover's heart?

Is love anything but what melts the hardness of youth?

For if you do not melt in it, there is no good in love.

If it does not melt you, there is no good in love.

وخيرُ خليليكَ الصفيين من صفا

وخيرُ خليليكَ الصفيين من صفا

لك الودُّ منه في بعادك والقرب

لك الودُّ منه في بعادك والقرب

And the best of your two devoted friends is he who is sincere

The best of your intimate friends is the purest one,

In his affection for you, whether you are far or near.

Whose affection remains in your absence and presence.

على النأي يمسي ذا جفونُ كأنّما

على النأي يمسي ذا جفونُ كأنّما

تكلَّف أن يحصي بها عدد الشهب

تكلَّف أن يحصي بها عدد الشهب

In separation, he spends the evening with eyelids as though

Though far, he stays up at night as if

He had undertaken to count the bright stars with them.

He tries to count the stars with his eyelids.

ولا خير في ود امرئٍ تستديمه

ولا خير في ود امرئٍ تستديمه

بعتبٍ وأوشك أن يزول مع العتب

بعتبٍ وأوشك أن يزول مع العتب

And there is no good in a man's affection that you sustain

There is no good in the affection of one

Through reproach, and that is soon to fade with reproach.

Whom you constantly reproach, and he is about to disappear with the reproach.

ألم ترني أصفيتُ ودِّي لماجدٍ

ألم ترني أصفيتُ ودِّي لماجدٍ

كأَنَّ على ما نابني قلبُه قلبي

كأَنَّ على ما نابني قلبُه قلبي

Have you not seen me give my sincere affection to a noble man,

Have you not seen me being faithful in my love for Majid

Whose heart, amid what has befallen me, seems my own?

As if his heart has turned into mine for what has afflicted me?