هواك فلست أقربه غرور

هواك فلست أقربه غرور

وأنت لكل من يأتي سرير

وأنت لكل من يأتي سرير

Your love is deception, so I will not go near it.

Your love, I am not its closest delusion

And you are a bed for everyone who comes.

While you are a bed for whoever comes

وما أن تصبرين على حبيب

وما أن تصبرين على حبيب

فحولك منهم عدد كثير

فحولك منهم عدد كثير

Nor do you stay with a single lover,

And you do not have patience for a lover

For many of them surround you.

So turn them away, many there are

فلو كنت الأمير لما تعاطى

فلو كنت الأمير لما تعاطى

لقاءك خوف جمعهم الأمير

لقاءك خوف جمعهم الأمير

So, were I the emir, the emir would not venture

If I were the prince I would not seek

To meet you, for fear of their throng.

A meeting with you, fearing the prince

رايتك كالأماني ما على من

رايتك كالأماني ما على من

يلم بها ولو كثروا غرور

يلم بها ولو كثروا غرور

I found you like wishes: those who

Your banner is like wishes, not on those

Draw near them, however many, are not deceived.

Who cling to it, though great their delusion

ولا عنها لمن يأتي دفاع

ولا عنها لمن يأتي دفاع

ولو حشد الأنام لهم نفير

ولو حشد الأنام لهم نفير

Nor is anyone who comes turned away from them,

Nor from it, defense for those who come

Even if a host mustered all mankind for them.

Though the people massed for them legions