ما للوشاة وماليه

ما للوشاة وماليه

وصل المليح حباليه

وصل المليح حباليه

What have the talebearers to do with me?

Why do the slanderers care, and what's it to them?

The fair one has joined my cords.

The beloved has arrived with his ropes.

قد كان بالأمس

قد كان بالأمس

القريب وأمه بحياليه

القريب وأمه بحياليه

Indeed, yesterday he was—

Just yesterday,

So recently—before me with his mother.

He was nearby with his mother watching me.

إن المليح إذا دنا

إن المليح إذا دنا

تلك الليالي حالية

تلك الليالي حالية

Indeed, when the fair one draws near,

When the beloved draws near,

Those nights are adorned.

Those nights become my state.

وإذا الحبيب سلا المحب

وإذا الحبيب سلا المحب

ترى المودة بالية

ترى المودة بالية

And when the beloved forgets the lover,

And if the beloved asks his lover,

You see affection worn out.

You'll see the affection is nil.

أقر الحبيب سلاميه

أقر الحبيب سلاميه

نفسي فدته وماليه

نفسي فدته وماليه

Convey my greetings to the beloved.

The beloved bid me peace,

My soul and my wealth have ransomed him.

My soul ransoms him and what's mine.

شخص الحبيب وذاته

شخص الحبيب وذاته

واللّه عندي غالية

واللّه عندي غالية

The beloved’s person and his very self,

The beloved's figure and self

By God, are precious to me.

By God, are so dear to me.

أقسمت بالأدب الغزير

أقسمت بالأدب الغزير

قريضه وكماليه

قريضه وكماليه

I swore by abundant literature,

I swore by the abundant poetry,

His verse and my perfection,

Its couplets and its rhymes,

أن الحبيب عن اليم

أن الحبيب عن اليم

ين مكانه وشماليه

ين مكانه وشماليه

That the beloved, on the right—

That the beloved, to the right of me

—has his place, and on my left.

Is his place and to my left.