مولاي لا صبر لي ولا جلدا

مولاي لا صبر لي ولا جلدا

صلني والا دعني امت كدا اولا

صلني والا دعني امت كدا اولا

My lord, I have neither patience nor endurance.

My Master, I have no patience or composure left

Grant me union; otherwise let me first die of hardship.

Bless me, or else let me die distressed

هواك بالهجر زادني كلفا

هواك بالهجر زادني كلفا

ودمع عيني من البكا نشفا

ودمع عيني من البكا نشفا

Love for you, through estrangement, has deepened my infatuation.

Your abandonment has brought me much agony

And my eye's tears have dried up from weeping.

And my teary eyes are dry from weeping

حسبك في الحب مدمع وكفى

حسبك في الحب مدمع وكفى

رفقا فصبري عليك قد نفدا

رفقا فصبري عليك قد نفدا

A tearful eye is enough for you in love—and it suffices.

Enough harm has your love caused, it made me tearful and it sufficed

Be gentle, for my patience with you has run out.

Be gentle, for my patience for you has run out

وفيك لم استمع لمن حسدا عذلا

وفيك لم استمع لمن حسدا عذلا

افديه ظبيا به الحشا علقا

افديه ظبيا به الحشا علقا

And in loving you, I heeded no one who reproached me out of envy.

And for you, I did not listen to those who envied and blamed

I would ransom him, a gazelle to whom the heart clings.

I would sacrifice myself for him, whom the wilderness has raised

يسحر ألبابنا اذ نطقا

يسحر ألبابنا اذ نطقا

جماله فتنة لمن عشقا

جماله فتنة لمن عشقا

He enchants our minds when he speaks.

His charm mesmerizes our minds when he speaks

His beauty is a temptation for whoever loves passionately.

His beauty is seductive for those who loved him

فقل للاح عليه حين بدا

فقل للاح عليه حين بدا

لم يخلق الله ذا الجمال سدا الا

لم يخلق الله ذا الجمال سدا الا

So tell the one who reproaches me over him, when he appears:

So tell that gazelle when he appears

God did not create this beauty in vain—behold!

God did not create such beauty in vain

يعطو غزالا وينثني غصنا

يعطو غزالا وينثني غصنا

وفرقه كالهدى يزيد سنا

وفرقه كالهدى يزيد سنا

He reaches up like a gazelle and bends like a branch.

Except to grant a gazelle and bend a branch

And his hair's parting, like guidance, grows in radiance.

And spread it like guidance, increasing its radiance

وفرعه اصل من به افتتنا

وفرعه اصل من به افتتنا

يا لك فرعا يضل به هدى

يا لك فرعا يضل به هدى

And his hair is the root of infatuation for those beguiled by him.

And its twig is a source from which we are infatuated

What hair you have—through it even guidance goes astray!

Oh you, whose twig misguides even guidance

لم تلق في الحسن مثله ابدا اصلا

لم تلق في الحسن مثله ابدا اصلا

جبينه كالهلال ان سفرا

جبينه كالهلال ان سفرا

You have never met his equal in beauty—not at all.

You have never seen the like of it in beauty or origin

His brow is like the crescent moon when unveiled.

His forehead is like a crescent moon unveiled

وقده كالقضيب ان خطرا

وقده كالقضيب ان خطرا

ولحظه صارما لنا شهرا

ولحظه صارما لنا شهرا

And his figure is like a slender branch when he sways.

And his figure like a rod if it stirs

And his glance is a cutting sword, unsheathed against us.

And his glance is severe on us like a month

يقتل باللمح من له قصدا

يقتل باللمح من له قصدا

وكم له في الغرام من شهدا قتلا

وكم له في الغرام من شهدا قتلا

He kills with a glance whoever comes seeking him.

It kills those who intend it with just a look

And how many martyrs have been slain for him in love!

And how many lives has he taken in love

امير حسن تمضي اوامره

امير حسن تمضي اوامره

فينا والحاظه بواتره

فينا والحاظه بواتره

A prince of beauty, whose commands hold sway

The prince of beauty, his commands overpower us

Among us—and his glances are his cutting swords.

And the eyebrows are his soldiers

وهدب اجفانه عساكره

وهدب اجفانه عساكره

له لواء الجمال قد عقدا

له لواء الجمال قد عقدا

And the lashes of his eyelids are his armies.

He holds the flag of beauty, it has been hoisted

For him the banner of beauty has been tied.

And everyone is a martyr for the sultan of his beauty, if not

وكل لسلطان حسنه شهدا ان لا

وكل لسلطان حسنه شهدا ان لا

And all have borne witness to his beauty's sovereignty: that no...