1. رعَى اللّهُ عَوَّاداً إذا زار نادياً

    غَدا لِجُموحِ اللَّهْوِ في الحالِ رَائِضَا

    May God protect an oud player: whenever he visits a gathering,

    he at once becomes a tamer of unbridled revelry.

  2. رأى طَرَبَ النَّدْمانِ أسْقَمه الهوَى

    فَجَسَّ له نَبْضاً من العُودِ نابِضَا

    He saw the drinking companion’s rapture sickened by love,

    so he felt for it a pulse throbbing from the oud.