I have become enchanted by eyes like those of a gazelle,
And I can’t bear to be separated from her, in the manner of the patient and chaste.
To cover up and deny this love, in the manner of lovers, is heresy,
Will declare my love for her, even if it angers the censor, even if I hear harsh words that forbid me from doing so.
The path (the path of love) that I have walked, and because of which I have lost my heart, has endured much.
He who speaks of harshness, with the voice of “ah,” has seen harshness with his own eyes from the beloved.
Let her shoot me with deadly arrows from that moment
Whenever she frowns, she flexes her bow to shoot me.
She hunts the heart with the magic of her mole,
with this mole, she hunts the ascetic and austere
No wonder my heart inclined towards her, I, the ascetic, devout, and wise, and became addicted to her love,
If Galen, the wise man of his time, would have become infatuated with her beauty.
How can my mind long for a peaceful sleep?
When the eyelid has not slept for a moment when the beloved departs!
And I look at the state of my body and its energy, and what happened to me after her departure, and his ability to compose poetry,
Every time I compose poetry describing her beauty in the finest detail, my body becomes weaker than before.
From the intensity of my grief and pain, the towering, high, and hard rocks took pity on me,
But, until now, your heart has not softened for me and shown even a little compassion for my condition.
I say this, and I know that Saadi was not the first lover,
You’re the gentle one, and whoever sees your beauty will be charmed by that beauty.
Arabic poem
أصبَحتُ مفتوناً بأعيُنِ أهيفا
لا أستطيعُ الصبرَ عنهُ تعَفُّفا
والستر في دينِ المحبَّةِ بدعَةٌ
أهوى وإن غضِبَ الرقيبُ وعنّفا
وطريق مسلوب الفؤاد تحمّل
من قال أوه من الجفاء فقد جفا
دع ترمني بسهام لحظٍ فاتكٍ
من رام قوسَ الحاجبينِ تهَدّفا
صيّادُ قلبٍ فوقَ حبّةِ خالهِ
شركٌ يصيدُ الزاهِدَ المُتَقَشّفا
لا غروا إن دَنِفَ الحكيمُ بمِثلهِ
لو كان جالينوسُ أصبحَ مدنفا
كيفَ السبيلُ إلى الخيالِ برَقدةٍ
والطرفُ مذ رحلَ الأحِبّةُ ماغَفا
وأميزُ في جسمي وطاقةِ شعرهِ
فَأصيبهُ منها أدَقُّ وأضعَفا
رَفّت جلاميدُ الصخورِ لشِدّتي
ما لانَ قلبُك أن يميلَ ويعطِفا
هذا وما السعديُّ أوّلَ عاشِقٍ
أنت اللطيفُ ومن رآك استلطفا
