لئن جرحت خدّي فلانة مقلتي

لئن جرحت خدّي فلانة مقلتي

لقد جرحاها بالدموع السواجم

لقد جرحاها بالدموع السواجم

If indeed my eye has wounded so-and-so’s two cheeks,

If Lana has wounded my cheek, my eyelids have wounded hers

they have indeed wounded it with streaming tears.

They have wounded them with copious ever-flowing tears

شكى خدّها لحظي ولحظيَ خدّها

شكى خدّها لحظي ولحظيَ خدّها

ولا ظالمٌ إلا ويبلى بظالم

ولا ظالمٌ إلا ويبلى بظالم

Her cheek complained of my gaze, and my gaze of her cheek;

Her cheek complained of my glance, and my cheek of her glance

and no wrongdoer escapes being afflicted by a wrongdoer.

There is no oppressor but fades under an oppressor's might