يا مالكاً رِقِّي بلا ثَمَنٍ

يا مالكاً رِقِّي بلا ثَمَنٍ

غير الملاحةِ منه والحسنِ

غير الملاحةِ منه والحسنِ

O master of my bondage, for no price

O possessor of grace without price

Save his own loveliness and beauty.

Other than sailing and beauty from it

إنَّ الّذي نمَّ الوشاةُ به

إنَّ الّذي نمَّ الوشاةُ به

لم يصدقوا فيه ولم يكُنِ

لم يصدقوا فيه ولم يكُنِ

Indeed, what the slanderers whispered about—

Indeed, what the slanderers spread

They spoke no truth about it, and it never happened.

They did not believe it, nor did it happen

وهَجَرتني فطردت معتمداً

وهَجَرتني فطردت معتمداً

عن مُقْلَتَيَّ لَذاذَةَ الوَسَنِ

عن مُقْلَتَيَّ لَذاذَةَ الوَسَنِ

And you abandoned me, deliberately banishing

And you deserted me, so I dismissed relying

The sweetness of drowsiness from my eyes.

On my eyelids the pleasure of intimacy

فقبيح ظلمِك فيه يعذُلني

فقبيح ظلمِك فيه يعذُلني

ومليحُ ظُلمٍ منك يعذرني

ومليحُ ظُلمٍ منك يعذرني

So the ugliness of your cruelty in this reproaches me,

So ugly is your injustice in it, it blames me

While the loveliness of cruelty from you excuses me.

And good is injustice from you that excuses me

ولِمنْ ألومُ وإنّما بصري

ولِمنْ ألومُ وإنّما بصري

هذي جنايتُهُ على بَدَني

هذي جنايتُهُ على بَدَني

And whom shall I blame? It is my sight alone:

And who do I blame, when my vision

This is its crime against my body.

This is its crime against my body

هي محنةٌ لولا الغرورُ بها

هي محنةٌ لولا الغرورُ بها

حازتْ ضِراراً سائرَ المِحَنِ

حازتْ ضِراراً سائرَ المِحَنِ

It is an ordeal that, but for the delusion it brings,

It is an ordeal, if not for vanity in it

Would encompass the harm of all other ordeals.

It would have brought harm to all ordeals

وَلو اِنّ لِي قلباً يطاوعني

وَلو اِنّ لِي قلباً يطاوعني

ليئِسْتُ ممّنُ ليس يرحمني

ليئِسْتُ ممّنُ ليس يرحمني

And if I had a heart that obeyed me,

And if I had a heart that obeys me

I would despair of the one who shows me no mercy;

I would despair of one who does not have mercy on me

فقطعتُ من إنصافِهِ أَمَلِي

فقطعتُ من إنصافِهِ أَمَلِي

ونفضتُ من إسعافِهِ دَرَنِي

ونفضتُ من إسعافِهِ دَرَنِي

Then I would cut off my hope of fair treatment from him,

So I cut off hope of his fairness

And shake off the grime of hoping for his aid.

And I shook off my necklaces from his aid