أَمُوتُ بِدَائِي وَالدَّوَا فِي يَدَيْكُمُ

أَمُوتُ بِدَائِي وَالدَّوَا فِي يَدَيْكُمُأَحِبَّةَ قَلْبِي أَنْعِمُوا بِدَوَائِي

Amūtu bidāʾī wa-ad-dawā fī yadaykumu, Aḥibbata qalbī anʿimū bidawāʾī

I am dying of my illness while the cure is in your hands; beloveds of my heart, be gracious and grant me my cure.

إِذَا كَانَ دَائِي أَصْلُهُ البُعْدُ عَنْكُمُفَإِنَّ دَوَائِي قُرْبُكُمْ وَشِفَائِي

Idhā kāna dāʾī aṣluhu al-buʿdu ʿankumu, Faʾinna dawāʾī qurbukum washifāʾī

If my illness springs from my distance from you, then my cure and my healing is nearness to you.

تَوَالَتْ كُرُوبِي مُذْ ضَرَبْتُمْ حِجَابَكُمْفَهَلْ مِنْ سَبِيلٍ لِيْ لِكَشْفِ غِطَائِي

Tawālat kurūbī mudh ḍarabtum ḥijābakum, Fahal min sabīlin liy likashfi ghiṭāʾī

My griefs have followed one upon another since you drew your veil; is there any way for my covering to be lifted?

أَطَلْتُمْ بِعَادِي بَعْدَ قُرْبٍ أَلِفْتُهُفَعُدْ يَا زَمَانَ الوَصْلِ قَبْلَ فَنَائِي

Aṭaltum biʿādī baʿda qurbin aliftuhu, Faʿud yā zamāna al-waṣli qabla fanāʾī

You have prolonged my distance after a nearness I had grown used to; so return, O time of union, before I perish.

لَئِنْ دَامَ هَذَا الهَجْرُ مِنْكُمْ وَفِي الحَشَامِنَ الوَجْدِ مَا فِيهَا وَرَدْتُ ثَرَائِي

Laʾin dāma hadhā al-hajru minkum wafī al-ḥashā, Mina al-wajdi mā fīhā waradtu tharāʾī

If this desertion of yours continues, with all the longing that fills my heart, I will have gone down to my grave.

يُعَيِّرُنِي مَنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ مَا وَجَدْتُهُبِمَا نَالَنِي مِنْ وَحْشَةٍ وَضَنَاءِ

Yuʿayyirunī man lam yajid mā wajadtuhu, Bimā nālanī min waḥshatin waḍanāʾi

One who has never felt what I feel reproaches me for the loneliness and wasting that have befallen me.

وَفِي القَلْبِ شُغْلٌ عَنْ سَمَاعِ انْتِقَادِهِبِتَأْمِيلِ وَصْلٍ بَعْدَ طُولِ تَنَائِي

Wafī al-qalbi shughlun ʿan samāʿi ntiqādihi, Bitaʾmīli waṣlin baʿda ṭūli tanāʾī

But my heart is too occupied to hear his criticism, hoping for union after long separation.

أَقُولُ لِنَفْسِي سَاعِياً فِي اخْتِبَارِهَاتَسَلَّيْ بِدُنْيَا عَنْهُمُ وَمُنَاءِ

Aqūlu linafsī sāʿiyan fī khtibārihā, Tasallay bidunyā ʿanhumu wamunāʾi

I say to my soul, seeking to test it: "Console yourself with the world and its desires instead of them."

فَقَالَتْ أَخُلْفٌ بَعْدَ وَعْدٍ وَعَدْتَنِيبِأَيْمَنِ ذَاتِ البَانِ يَوْمَ وَنَائِي

Faqālat akhulfun baʿda waʿdin waʿadtanī, Biʾaymani dhāti al-bāni yawma wanāʾī

It replied: "Will you break the promise you made me on the right side of the ban-tree valley, on the day I faltered?

وَقَدْ أَضْرَمَ البَيْنُ المُبَرِّحُ نَارَهُفَقُلْتُ سَيُطْفَا حَرُّهُ بِلِقَائِي

Waqad aḍrama al-baynu al-mubarriḥu nārahu, Faqultu sayuṭfā ḥarruhu biliqāʾī

Separation's torment had kindled its fire, and I said its heat would be quenched when I met Him."

وَلَمَّا حَدَا بِي حَادِيَ الشَّوْقِ قَاصِداًإِلَيْكُمْ بِجُنْدَيْ فِطْرَتِي وَهَوَائِي

Walammā ḥadā bī ḥādiya ash-shawqi qāṣidan, Ilaykum bijunday fiṭratī wahawāʾī

And when longing's driver urged me on, heading toward you with the two armies of my nature and my desire,

دَعَتْنِي إِلَيْهَا ذَاتُ مَكْرٍ وَحِيلَةٍوَقَالَتْ أَنَا المَقْصُودُ لَيْسَ سِوَائِي

Daʿatnī ilayhā dhātu makrin waḥīlatin, Waqālat anā al-maqṣūdu laysa siwāʾī

A woman of cunning and wiles called me to her, saying: "I am the goal, there is none besides me."

فَأُفٍّ لَهَا خَدَّاعَةٌ لَا تَغُرُّنِيبِرَوْنَقِهَا المَمْدُودِ فَوْقَ خَنَاءِ

Faʾuffin lahā khaddāʿatun lā taghurrunī, Birawnaqihā al-mamdūdi fawqa khanāʾi

Fie on her, a deceiver! She will not beguile me with the lustre she spreads over foulness.

تَنَحَّيْ تَنَحَّيْ لَا سَلَاماً وَلَا رِضاًتُرِيدِينَ قَطْعِي عَنْ سَبِيلِ غَنَائِي

Tanaḥḥay tanaḥḥay lā salāman walā riḍan, Turīdīna qaṭʿī ʿan sabīli ghanāʾī

"Away, away! No peace and no welcome! You want to cut me off from the path of my true wealth."

تَحَقَّقْتُ مَطْلُوبِي فَأَسْرَعْتُ نَحْوَهُفَدَامَ سُرُورِي وَاضْمَحَلَّ عَنَائِي

Taḥaqqaqtu maṭlūbī faʾasraʿtu naḥwahu, Fadāma surūrī waḍmaḥalla ʿanāʾī

I realised what I sought and hastened toward it, so my joy endured and my hardship faded away.

وَدَامَ شُهُودِي وَاسْتَمَرَّتْ مَوَاسِمِيوَطَابَ زَمَانِي وَاسْتَتَمَّ صَفَائِي

Wadāma shuhūdī wastamarrat mawāsimī, Waṭāba zamānī wastatamma ṣafāʾī

My witnessing endured, my festive seasons continued, my time grew sweet and my purity was made complete.

بِرَبِّي قِيَامِي لَا بِنَفْسِي وَلَا السِّوَىفَشُكْرِي لَهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَثَنَائِي

Birabbī qiyāmī lā binafsī walā as-siwā, Fashukrī lahu subḥānahu wathanāʾī

I stand by my Lord, not by myself nor by anything else; so my thanks and my praise are His, glory be to Him.