1. You wrote to me, granting me leave
To write back from me to you - I'm smitten, smitten so!
١. كاتبْتَني وأذنتَ لي بكتابةٍ
مني إليكَ لقدْ فُتنت فُتونا
2. My master, who has seen with his eyes
A servant like me, permitted to correspond?
٢. يا مالكي بجميلِهِ منْ ذا رأى
عَبْداً سوايَ مكاتباً مأذونا