1. Oh, how I wish I saw you in Al-Hijr
I wish to see you but I never will

2. His eyelashes deceived me, they deceived me
His cheeks deceived me, his lips deceived me

3. And he whose voice still echoes in my hearing
His image wanders still, even its echo

4. A dream that passed as others passed away
And so do dreams pass and lifetimes

5. Where, O my nights, is the era of passion?
Where, O my nights, is the sweet talk?

6. Whispers between my ear and lips
Tweets flowing in my blood

7. Sweet honeyed words
I wasted and took pity on the oath

8. They left like dreams leave
I know what you don’t know

9. How we believed the delusions of passion
In a child’s whim and a boy’s feeling

10. We thought it a glittering sky
Over our two heads and a wooden hut

11. A dream that passed and a delusion that did not last
Nothing remains but a golden thread

12. One beautiful original day
The sun melted and flowed like gold

13. It covered the Nile in blossoms and bent
To submerge the desert, palms and rubies

14. As for the Pyramids when they saw
My sunset embracing the dawn of youth

15. They saw us like the ghosts of a dream
Coming or going, who knows?

16. I said, come, let’s walk, no path
Is too long for us not to tread

17. I said, and life before my eyes like a water wheel
And I am in a dream I traverse

18. Fate brought together two lovers
And tomorrow will separate them

19. Two paths in my life: one with him
And one without him

20. Whenever my beloved let go
His hand a moment, I said, leave it

21. Leave it, so I can shake off with it
The fear of tomorrow

22. Feel through it safety and with it
Leave it so I can with it brace myself

23. When resolve weakens, and it still
Leave it so that when I touch it