حبّي انجلى جماله وقد حان وصاله

حبّي انجلى جماله وقد حان وصاله

أراني كماله بمرآتي مثاله

أراني كماله بمرآتي مثاله

My beloved's beauty has been unveiled, and the time for union with him has come.

My love revealed his beauty, and the time of union has come

His perfection showed me his likeness in my mirror.

I see his perfection in my mirror, his image

بدري باهي المحيّا يجلو صافي الحميّا

بدري باهي المحيّا يجلو صافي الحميّا

بكاسه لي حيا وقد صفا جرياله

بكاسه لي حيا وقد صفا جرياله

My full moon, radiant of face, reveals the clear, potent wine.

My full moon dawning with a radiant face, clearing the pure dawn

In his cup is life-giving rain for me, and his red wine has grown clear.

With his cup giving me life, its draft purified

يا لائمي في سكري مهلاً فالهوى عذري

يا لائمي في سكري مهلاً فالهوى عذري

ثكلتك لو تدري هوى جلا جلاله

ثكلتك لو تدري هوى جلا جلاله

O you who blame me for my drunkenness, be gentle: love is my excuse.

Oh you who blame me for my intoxication, wait, for love is my excuse

May your mother be bereaved of you! If only you knew a love whose majesty shone forth.

May you lose your children if you but knew the love of the Majestic Glory

نعيمي بمحبوبي غدا عين تعذيبي

نعيمي بمحبوبي غدا عين تعذيبي

جناني بمطلوبي نارٌ بها اشتعاله

جناني بمطلوبي نارٌ بها اشتعاله

My bliss in my beloved has become my very torment.

My bliss is with my beloved, though now the sight of him torments me

My heart, for the one I seek, is a fire in which it blazes.

My heaven with my sought one is a fire flaming within it

عذل عذولي عدلُ بلا نقطةٍ تعلو

عذل عذولي عدلُ بلا نقطةٍ تعلو

ما للعذّال فعلُ وكلّها أفعاله

ما للعذّال فعلُ وكلّها أفعاله

My reproacher's 'reproach' is 'justice' with no dot above.

Reprove my playful critic justly, with no fault to be set right

The reproachers have no agency; all deeds are his.

What can the critic do, when all is His doing?

هواه لنا ملَّهْ ووجهه لي قبلهْ

هواه لنا ملَّهْ ووجهه لي قبلهْ

عذولي الغبي الأبلهْ قد غرّه ضلاله

عذولي الغبي الأبلهْ قد غرّه ضلاله

Love for him is our creed, and his face is my direction of prayer.

His love has filled us, his face is before me, kissed

My dull-witted, foolish reproacher has been deceived by his own error.

My foolish critic, misled in his error

يا عاذلي لا تطمع فليس من مسمع

يا عاذلي لا تطمع فليس من مسمع

فذو الهوى لا يسمع مهما لغت عذّاله

فذو الهوى لا يسمع مهما لغت عذّاله

O my reproacher, do not hope, for there is no listening ear.

Oh you who blame me, do not hope, for none will listen

For one in love does not listen, however much his reproachers prattle.

The lover hears nothing, no matter how the critic complains

وكيف يصغي المغرمْ لعاذلٍ لا يعلمْ

وكيف يصغي المغرمْ لعاذلٍ لا يعلمْ

جمال الّذي تيّمْ كلّ الورى جماله

جمال الّذي تيّمْ كلّ الورى جماله

And how can the lovestruck heed a reproacher who does not know

How can the enamored listen to a critic who knows nothing

the beauty of the one whose beauty has enthralled all humankind?

Of the beauty that has enthralled all creation in its allure?

عليه ربّي صلَّى وسلّم في المجلى

عليه ربّي صلَّى وسلّم في المجلى

لدى الرفرف الأعلى وقد نما إقباله

لدى الرفرف الأعلى وقد نما إقباله

May my Lord bestow blessings and peace upon him in the place of manifestation,

May my Lord bless and salute him, in the Exalted Assembly

beside the loftiest Rafraf, as his good fortune grew,

At the Lote-Tree of the Limit, his request granted

وعلى الآل الغرّ والصحب ذوي القدر

وعلى الآل الغرّ والصحب ذوي القدر

ما شدا اليافي البكري حبّي انجلى جماله

ما شدا اليافي البكري حبّي انجلى جماله

and upon the radiant family and companions of high rank,

And upon his Family, pure and noble, and the Companions of merit

as long as al-Yafi al-Bakri sings: 'My beloved's beauty has been unveiled.'

As long as the south wind blows, my love revealed his beauty