يا جاعلاً عينيهِ من أَشراكِ

يا جاعلاً عينيهِ من أَشراكِ

تَركي هواكَ نهايةُ الإِشراكِ

تَركي هواكَ نهايةُ الإِشراكِ

O you who make your two eyes into snares,

O you who made his eyes out of snares

To forsake my love for you is the height of polytheism.

Leave your love, it is the end of snares

لم أدرِ حينَ أراكَ تخطِرُ مائساً

لم أدرِ حينَ أراكَ تخطِرُ مائساً

أقوامُ قدِّكَ أم قضيبُ أراكِ

أقوامُ قدِّكَ أم قضيبُ أراكِ

I cannot tell, when I see you walk with a swaying gait:

When I saw you saunter gracefully

is that your upright figure, or an arak branch?

Were your stature people or a walking stick of arak wood

أم قد حكيتَ البدرَ ليلةَ تِمِّهِ

أم قد حكيتَ البدرَ ليلةَ تِمِّهِ

فاستَعظمَ المحكيُّ قدرَ الحاكي

فاستَعظمَ المحكيُّ قدرَ الحاكي

Or have you mirrored the full moon on the night of its fullness,

Or did you narrate the full moon on the night of its perfection

so that the model marveled at the imitator's worth?

So the narrator magnified the worth of the narrator

وكمِ اعترضتَ تَذلُّلي بِتَذلُّلِ

وكمِ اعترضتَ تَذلُّلي بِتَذلُّلِ

وكمِ ابتسمتَ وجَفنُ عيني باكي

وكمِ ابتسمتَ وجَفنُ عيني باكي

And how often you met my submission with submission,

And how often you interrupted my flirtation with flirtation

and how often you smiled while my eyelid wept.

And how often you smiled while my eyelids cried

ما شئتَ عاتبني وعاقبني به

ما شئتَ عاتبني وعاقبني به

إِلاَّ بساحرِ طَرفكَ الفتاكِ

إِلاَّ بساحرِ طَرفكَ الفتاكِ

Reproach and punish me with whatever you wish,

Whatever you wanted to reproach me and punish me with

except with your bewitching, deadly gaze.

Except with your captivating glancing eyes

لو لم تَرُح شاكي سلاحِ الُمقلةِ ال

لو لم تَرُح شاكي سلاحِ الُمقلةِ ال

نَّجلاِ ما أضحى لسانيَ شاكي

نَّجلاِ ما أضحى لسانيَ شاكي

Had you not gone forth fully armed with the weapon of the eye—

Had you not been complaining of the weapon of separation

the wide one—my tongue would not have become a complainer.

My tongue would not have become complaining

يا آمري بخلاص قلبي من هوىً

يا آمري بخلاص قلبي من هوىً

لم أرجُ منه مدى الزَّمانَ فِكاكي

لم أرجُ منه مدى الزَّمانَ فِكاكي

O you who bid me free my heart from a passion

O you who commanded my heart be rid of passion

from which I never hoped for freedom as long as time endures:

I did not see any deliverance from it for an epoch

أينَ المفرُّ لعاشقٍ مُتهتِّكٍ

أينَ المفرُّ لعاشقٍ مُتهتِّكٍ

صرعَتهُ أسهمُ أعيُنِ الأتراكِ

صرعَتهُ أسهمُ أعيُنِ الأتراكِ

where can an unabashed lover flee,

Where can the passionate overwhelmed lover flee

felled by the arrows of the Turks' eyes?

Brought down by the arrows of the eyes of the Turks

وبمُهجتي منهم أغنُّ إذا بدا

وبمُهجتي منهم أغنُّ إذا بدا

سجدت له الأقمارُ في الأفلاكِ

سجدت له الأقمارُ في الأفلاكِ

My lifeblood be ransom for a mellow-voiced one among them; when he appears,

And my beloved among them, when he appears

the moons in the celestial spheres bow down before him.

The moons in the cosmos bow down before him

يُزري على الرَّوضِ الُمدَبَّجِ ثغرُهُ

يُزري على الرَّوضِ الُمدَبَّجِ ثغرُهُ

عندَ الصبَّاح بَعبقَةِ المِسواكِ

عندَ الصبَّاح بَعبقَةِ المِسواكِ

His mouth puts the richly embroidered garden to shame,

He visits the well-adorned garden, his mouth

in the morning, with the fragrance of the miswak.

Scented at dawn with the toothbrush of miswak