أمهذب الذين استمع من عاتب

أمهذب الذين استمع من عاتب

لولا ودادك لم يفه بعتاب

لولا ودادك لم يفه بعتاب

O Muhadhdhab [“those who” is unclear here], listen to one who reproaches you.

O you who rebuke the one who listened from the reproacher

Were it not for love of you, he would voice no reproach.

If not for your love, he would not understand the reproach

أتطيع في الدهر وهو كما ترى

أتطيع في الدهر وهو كما ترى

يقضي علي بفرقة الأحباب

يقضي علي بفرقة الأحباب

Do you obey Time against me, though, as you see,

Do you obey time as you see

it condemns me to separation from loved ones?

It judges me by separating dear friends

أمللتني وجعلت سكرك حجة

أمللتني وجعلت سكرك حجة

ونهضت أم لم تستحل شرابي

ونهضت أم لم تستحل شرابي

Have you tired of me and made your drunkenness an excuse,

You have wearied me and made your intoxication an excuse

and risen—or did you not find my wine pleasing?

And got up, did you not make my wine lawful?

قسما لئن لم تأتني متنصلاً

قسما لئن لم تأتني متنصلاً

متبرعا بالعذر والإعتاب

متبرعا بالعذر والإعتاب

I swear: if you do not come to me apologizing,

I swear if you do not come to me apologizing

freely offering an excuse and amends,

Justifying with the excuse and reproach

لأحرمنّ الخندريس وأغتدي

لأحرمنّ الخندريس وأغتدي

متنمسا بالماء والمحراب

متنمسا بالماء والمحراب

I shall surely forbid myself aged wine and rise at dawn,

I will forbid myself wine and take to asceticism

feigning piety with water and the prayer niche.

Bathing myself with water at the prayer niche

وتبوء معتمداً بإثم تنسكي

وتبوء معتمداً بإثم تنسكي

وبعابه أعظم به من عاب

وبعابه أعظم به من عاب

And you will deliberately bear the sin of my asceticism,

And incur the sin of my asceticism

and its disgrace—what a grievous fault it is!

And its shame is greater for me than shame