Sol 6.1

  1. يَوْمُ المُحِبِّ لِطُولِهِ شَهْرُ

    وَالشَّهْرُ يُحسَبُ أَنَّهُ دَهْرُ

    The lover’s day is so long it is a month;

    And the month is reckoned an age.

  2. بأَبي وَأُمِّي غادَةٌ في خدَّها

    سِحْرٌ وبَيْنَ جُفُونِها سِحْرُ

    May my father and mother be ransom for a graceful maiden, on whose cheek

    Is magic, and between whose eyelids is magic.

  3. الشَّمْسُ تَحْسَبُ أنَّها شَمْسُ الضُّحَى

    وَالبدْرُ يَحْسَبُ أنَّها البَدْرُ

    The sun thinks her the sun of midmorning;

    And the full moon thinks her the full moon.

  4. فَسَلِ الهوى عَنها يُجيبُ وَإنْ نأتْ

    فَسلِ الْقِفارَ يُجيبُكَ القَفْرُ

    So ask love about her—it will answer; and if she has gone far away,

    Then ask the wastelands—the wilderness will answer you.

  5. لِمَنِ الدِّيارُ بِرامَتَينِ فَعاقِلٍ

    دَرَسَتْ وغَيَّرَ آيَها القَطْرُ

    Whose are the dwellings at Ramatayn and Aqil?

    They have been effaced, and the rain has altered their traces.