Sol 6.1

  1. إن كنتِ صادقةَ الهوى يا فتنتي

    فارضي لنفسكِ بالذي ارضى بهِ

    If you are sincere in love, O my enchantress,

    then accept for yourself what I accept.

  2. عاهدِتِني ونكثتِ عهدكِ اربعاً

    ويل الفؤاد من الحبيب وكذبهِ

    You pledged yourself to me, then broke your pledge four times.

    Woe to the heart, for the beloved and his lies!

  3. اكذا يُعامَل قلبُ حرٍّ عاشقٍ

    قد ذاق انواع العذاب بحبّهِ

    Is this how a noble lover's heart is treated,

    after tasting every kind of torment through its love?

  4. قد ضاع صبري خانني جلدي كفى

    هزءاً بصبٍّ انت ربَّةُ قلبهِ

    My patience is lost; my fortitude has failed me. Enough

    of mocking a lovesick man whose heart you rule.

  5. اعطاكِ ملءَ وجودهِ وحياتهِ

    فجعلتِ ذا في الحبِّ عدَّة حربهِ

    He gave you all his being and his life,

    yet in love you made that your arsenal against him.

  6. قطع السنينَ مروَّعاً ومولَّعاً

    تعدينهُ لكن ارادةَ خلبهِ

    He passed the years, terrified and enamored;

    you make him promises, but only to beguile him.

  7. وعدٌ كَرَقرَاق السراب مُخادعٌ

    حب التقلب راسخٌ في جنبهِ

    A deceitful promise, like a mirage's quivering shimmer;

    love of fickleness is rooted in its heart.

  8. واحيرتي بملاك حسنٍ قلبهُ ال

    لمائيّ كالصخر الاصمّ وصلبهِ

    How bewildering: an angel of beauty, whose heart—

    [unclear epithet]—is like solid rock in its hardness.

  9. قولي اذَن فليصلبنَّ فانهُ

    راضٍ على امل النجاة بصلبهِ

    Say, then: let him be crucified, for he

    is content, hoping for salvation through his crucifixion.

  10. وكذلك السمُّ الزُعاف يسيغهُ

    بدل الزلالِ متى امرتِ بشربهِ

    Likewise, he would swallow deadly poison

    instead of pure water, whenever you ordered him to drink it.

  11. فلذاك اصلحُ من ضياع رشادهِ

    فيبيت مفتضحاً بسؤرة كربهِ

    For that is better than his losing his reason

    and spending the night disgraced by the dregs of his anguish.

  12. الله يبلي ياظلوم فؤادكِ ال

    قاسي بداءٍ لا منالَ لطبهِ

    May God afflict your heart, O cruel one—

    that hard heart—with a disease beyond all cure:

  13. بمحبَّةٍ لذاعةٍ حرَّى لمن

    يغدو نظيركِ ظالماً لمحبّةِ

    with stinging, burning love for one

    who, like you, is cruel to a lover.

  14. فبذاك يعرف كم يكابدُ عاشقٌ

    يقف التجنيّ دائماً في دربهِ

    Then your heart would know how much a lover suffers,

    when injustice always stands in his path.

  15. لم يبقَ لي الاَّ الدعاءُ عليكِ يا

    ملكاً قضى جوراً بشقوة حبهِ

    I have nothing left but prayers against you, O

    monarch who unjustly doomed your beloved to misery,

  16. بنحولهِ بذبولهِ بذهولهِ

    فليلقَ بعد اليوم رحمةَ ربهِ

    to his wasting away, to his withering, to his bewilderment.

    So let him, henceforth, find his Lord's mercy.

  17. جازى حنوّي بالخداع معذّبي

    يا ربِّ عذبهُ ولا ترفق بهِ

    My tormentor repaid my tenderness with deceit;

    O Lord, torment him, and do not be gentle with him.

  18. لم ترعَ اثنى قط ذمة ذي وفا

    صدقَ الذي قد خطَّ ذا في كتبهِ

    No woman has ever honored a faithful man's bond;

    he who wrote this in his books spoke the truth.

  19. يا ليت آدمُ مات في فردوسهِ

    من قبل خدعة مَن تعيش بقربهِ

    Would that Adam had died in his paradise,

    before the deceit of her who lived beside him.

  20. فلاغسلنَّ يدي من الدنيا ومن

    املي ومن هذا الزمان وصحبهِ

    Then I shall surely wash my hands of the world, and of

    my hope, and of this age and its companions.

  21. ولأقطعنَّ مع الحبيب علائقي

    واعيش عيشة ناسكٍ في سربهِ

    And I shall surely sever my ties with the beloved,

    and live a hermit's life in his retreat.

  22. اليأس كل اليأس من هذا الورى

    فبهِ اللبيبُ ينال راحة لبّهِ

    Despair—utter despair—of all humankind:

    for through it the wise man finds peace of mind.