1. يا خالقي يا حي يا رزاق

    بحق النبي المختار تجمعنا

    O my Creator, O Ever-Living, O Provider,

    for the sake of the chosen Prophet, bring us together.

  2. مشتاق ليكم يا منى العُشاق

    يا ريتنا كُنا تودعنا

    I long for you, O heart's desire of lovers.

    If only we had said our farewells.

  3. مُشتاق ليكم يا مُنى العُشاق

    يشهد علي الواحد الخلاق

    I long for you, O heart's desire of lovers.

    The One, the Creator, is my witness.

  4. يا أَبو وَجه براق

    نسيان عشاقك

    O you with the shining face,

    have you forgotten your lovers?

  5. كنا سوا بوقاق

    وحياد خلاقك

    We were together in harmony,

    by the life of your Creator.

  6. لكن زَماني باق

    حَتّى الجَفا حاقك

    But my fate betrayed me,

    until estrangement overtook you.

  7. ما ظن غَيري ذاق

    ما ذقت عافراقك

    I do not think anyone else has tasted

    what I tasted in parting from you.

  8. من بعدكم كاس الصَفا ما راق

    حنظل عَلى بُعدك تجرعنا

    Since you left, the cup of joy has lost its savor.

    In your absence, we swallowed colocynth.

  9. حَنظل شربنا في لَيالي البُعد

    وَلا كان ظَني باختلاف الوَعد

    We drank colocynth through the nights of separation.

    Nor did I expect the promise to be broken.

  10. عُقب المُنى وَالسَعد

    عادَ اِنعَكَس سضعدي

    After hope and happiness,

    my good fortune was reversed.

  11. يابو الحَلق وَالجَعد

    جعد الغَضى جعدي

    O you with earrings and curls,

    the beloved's curls are my curls.

  12. أَين اللُقا وَالوَعد

    بَعد الجَفا وَعدي

    Where are reunion and the promise?

    After estrangement, what of my promise?

  13. لا تنكرون الود

    يا هل الهَوى ودي

    Do not deny love,

    O people of passion, the love I bear.

  14. يا حلو لَو هِيَ بِالمُنى وَالقَصد

    ما كانَ في بر التُرك ضعنا

    O sweet one, if it depended on wishes and intent,

    we would not have lost our way in the Turks' land.

  15. ما كان في بر الترك غبنا

    وَلا تركناكم بطيبنا

    We would not have vanished in the Turks' land,

    nor would we have left you willingly.

  16. لا يَفرَح المَحزون

    وَالدَهر يطربنا

    The sorrowful one cannot rejoice,

    nor can time gladden us,

  17. إِلا بِلُقا المَضنون

    من هجركم ذبنا

    except by meeting the cherished one.

    Your desertion has melted us away.

  18. هايم كَما المَجنون

    مِنكَ تعجبنا

    Lost in love, like a madman,

    we have marveled at you.

  19. وَرجوعنا مَضنون

    يا منيتي شبنا

    And our return is held back,

    O my heart's desire, we have grown gray.

  20. إِن كانَ قَصدك تَرَكنا بِالعُون

    مِن نظرتك يا حلو ما شبعنا

    If you truly mean to abandon us,

    we have not had our fill of seeing you, O sweet one.

  21. من نظرتك يا حلو مروينا

    كَأن ما رحنا وَما جينا

    We have not quenched our thirst by seeing you, O sweet one.

    As though we had neither gone nor come.

  22. من عُقب ما حنا قران

    صاروا قَوافينا

    After we had been companions,

    they became our rhymes.

  23. يا كامل الدوزان

    شمتوا العِدى فينا

    O perfectly tuned one,

    the enemies gloated over us.

  24. وين الغَضي ما بان

    هاتوا مسلينا

    Where is the beloved? Still out of sight.

    Bring us our comforter.

  25. ما ترحموا العَيان

    يا هل الهَوى ضنينا

    Will you not pity the ailing one?

    O people of passion, we have wasted away.

  26. يا بَدر بازل يا قمر نيسان

    احضر وشوف الحال واقشعنا

    O full moon in your prime, O April moon,

    come, see our state, and look upon us.

  27. احضر وشوف الحال حَتّى نشوف

    يا كامل الهندام وَالمَعروف

    Come, see our state, so that we may see you,

    O you, perfect in dress and kindness.

  28. شوف النُهود زروف

    متقعدات نظاف

    Look at those shapely breasts,

    firmly seated and immaculate,

  29. ملهن حلم معطوف

    ياقوت ما حد شاف

    with no drooping nipples:

    rubies that no one has seen.

  30. جعد الغضي معكوف

    لون العَبد هياف

    The beloved's curls are coiled,

    the color of a slave's skin, on a slender beauty.

  31. لا في حلب وَالشوف

    متلو غياد زراف

    Neither in Aleppo nor in the Shouf

    are there graceful, charming maidens like this one.

  32. أَيضاً وَلا ربت بني مَعروف

    مثلك عَلى هالرنك ما قشعنا

    Nor have Bani Ma'ruf ever reared

    your like in this form—we have never seen one.

  33. مثلك عَلى هلرنك غيد حسان

    ما ينوجد ظني بعرب بُستان

    Graceful, lovely maidens like you, of this form,

    I think, cannot be found among the Arabs of Bustan.

  34. شوف القَلب وَلهان

    مِن بعدكم عَنا

    Look at the heart, distraught with longing,

    since you have been away from us.

  35. يا فتن الغُزلان

    لا شك فاتنا

    O enchanter of gazelles,

    you have doubtless passed us by.

  36. ما ئن صاب سنان

    مثلي وَلا جَنا

    No one struck by a spear-tip has groaned

    as I have, nor reaped such grief.

  37. اعمل معاي حسان

    وَطلوب وَتمنا

    Show me kindness,

    and ask, and wish.

  38. روحي فدا للمنحر الريان

    بس أنتَ سوي راي وَاجمعنا

    My soul is a ransom for that full, soft bosom.

    Just devise a plan and bring us together.