دَعي اللَومَ أَو بيني كَشِقِّ صَديعِ

دَعي اللَومَ أَو بيني كَشِقِّ صَديعِ

فَقَد لُمتِ قَبلَ اليَومِ غَيرَ مُطيعِ

فَقَد لُمتِ قَبلَ اليَومِ غَيرَ مُطيعِ

Leave off blame, or part from me like one half of a torn garment.

Leave blame aside or split me like a cracked jug,

For before today you have blamed one who will not obey.

For I disobeyed before this day, and was not obedient.

وَإِن كُنتِ تَهوَينَ الفِراقَ فَفارِقي

وَإِن كُنتِ تَهوَينَ الفِراقَ فَفارِقي

لِأَمرِ شَتاتٍ أَو لِأَمرِ جَميعِ

لِأَمرِ شَتاتٍ أَو لِأَمرِ جَميعِ

And if you desire separation, then depart,

And if you wish to part from me, then part,

whether for a course of separation or one of union.

Due to scattered affairs or for a collective matter.

فَلَو أَنَّني ثَمَّرتُ مالي وَنَسلَهُ

فَلَو أَنَّني ثَمَّرتُ مالي وَنَسلَهُ

وَأَمسَكتُ إِمساكاً كَبُخلِ مَنيعِ

وَأَمسَكتُ إِمساكاً كَبُخلِ مَنيعِ

For had I made my wealth and its offspring grow,

If I had hoarded my wealth and its yield,

and hoarded it with a stinginess like Maniʿ's,

Holding back stingily like a miser.

رَضيتِ بِأَدنى عَيشِنا وَحَمِدتِنا

رَضيتِ بِأَدنى عَيشِنا وَحَمِدتِنا

إِذا صَدَرَت عَن قارِصٍ وَنَقيعِ

إِذا صَدَرَت عَن قارِصٍ وَنَقيعِ

you would have been content with our humblest fare and praised us,

You would have been content with our meager living and thanked me

when you had drunk your fill of sour milk and fresh milk.

If I acted meanly and was ungenerous.

وَلَكِنَّ مالي غالَهُ كُلُّ جَفنَةٍ

وَلَكِنَّ مالي غالَهُ كُلُّ جَفنَةٍ

إِذا حانَ وِردٌ أَسبَلَت بِدُموعِ

إِذا حانَ وِردٌ أَسبَلَت بِدُموعِ

But my wealth has been consumed by every serving-bowl

But my wealth - every blink wasted it

that, when the time to drink came, streamed with tears,

When the time of giving came, I poured it out in tears.

وَإِعطائِيَ المَولى عَلى حينِ فَقرِهِ

وَإِعطائِيَ المَولى عَلى حينِ فَقرِهِ

إِذا قالَ أَبصِر خَلَّتي وَخُشوعي

إِذا قالَ أَبصِر خَلَّتي وَخُشوعي

and by my giving to a kinsman in his hour of poverty,

And giving to my Master in His time of need

when he said, 'Look upon my need and my humility.'

When He says "Look upon my isolation and humility."

وَخَصمٍ كَنادي الجِنِّ أَسقَطتُ شَأوَهُم

وَخَصمٍ كَنادي الجِنِّ أَسقَطتُ شَأوَهُم

بِمُستَحصِدٍ ذي مِرَّةٍ وَصُروعِ

بِمُستَحصِدٍ ذي مِرَّةٍ وَصُروعِ

And adversaries like an assembly of jinn—I brought their ambitions low

I dropped the hostility of adversaries like Jinn's shouting

with a tightly woven argument, strong and able to overthrow,

With a harvester having bitterness and leanness.

كَخَصمِ بَني بَدرٍ غَداةَ لَقيتُهُم

كَخَصمِ بَني بَدرٍ غَداةَ لَقيتُهُم

وَمِن قَبلُ قَد قَوَّمتُ دَرءَ رَبيعِ

وَمِن قَبلُ قَد قَوَّمتُ دَرءَ رَبيعِ

as with my opponents, Banu Badr, the morning I met them;

Like the adversaries of Badr's sons, the morning I met them

and before that, I had straightened Rabiʿ's crookedness.

And before that I had set right warding off of spring.