1. تذرى الدموع السواكب

    من فرط الشجون

    The streaming tears are shed

    From overwhelming sorrow.

  2. كالنار بين الجوانب

    لواعج ما تهون

    Like fire within my sides

    Are burning pangs that will not ease,

  3. من طول الحبايب

    وا أدري ما يكون

    From the beloveds' long delay.

    Ah, do I know what will be?

  4. ضاقت علي المذاهب

    ما هب النسيم من حي سل

    The paths have narrowed for me.

    No breeze blows from the abode of Sal-

  5. مى ولبنى في اللَيل البهيم

    إلا وبات المعنى الصب

    ma and Lubna in the pitch-black night,

    But the tormented, lovesick one spends the night

  6. السقيم مبلبل البال مضني

    سهران الجفون

    Ailing, troubled in mind and worn down,

    With sleepless eyelids,

  7. كئيب حيران ذائب

    يا شادن زرود

    Sad, bewildered, melting away.

    O young gazelle of Zarud,

  8. لم تجافيت عني

    يا ورد الخدود

    Why have you turned away from me?

    O rose-cheeked one,

  9. ما كان ذافيك ظني

    أشمت الحسود

    This was not what I expected of you.

    You made the envious one gloat

  10. على إذ بان وهني

    قد ظن أني أهون

    Over me when my weakness showed.

    He thought I would be brought low.

  11. كلا ورب المغارب

    إني يا عذول

    No! By the Lord of the western horizons,

    Indeed, O reproacher, I

  12. باللَه مولاي واثق

    البر الوصول

    Am confident in God, my Lord,

    The Beneficent, the ever-bestowing,

  13. خالق جميع الخلائق

    دائم لا يزول

    Creator of all creatures,

    Everlasting, never passing away,

  14. وهاب فناح رازق

    في حسن الظنون

    Bestower, [Opener], Provider.

    In thinking well

  15. باللَه كل المطالب

    والهادي البشير

    Of God lies all that one seeks.

    And the guide, the bearer of glad tidings,

  16. خير البريات جدي

    البدر المنير

    The best of all creation, my forefather,

    The radiant full moon—

  17. به تم فخري ومجدي

    بالطهر النذير

    Through him my pride and glory were perfected.

    Through the pure one, the warner,

  18. أنا غاية قصدي

    من كل الفنون

    I [attain] my utmost aim

    In every art,

  19. على هوان المجانب

    To the humiliation of the one who shuns me.