تَعصي الإِلَهَ وَأَنتَ تُظهِرُ حُبَّهُ

تَعصي الإِلَهَ وَأَنتَ تُظهِرُ حُبَّهُ

هَذا مُحالٌ في القِياسِ بَديعُ

هَذا مُحالٌ في القِياسِ بَديعُ

You disobey God while professing love for Him;

You disobey God while professing love for Him.

This is impossible by any reckoning—an astonishing contradiction.

This is, by reason's reckoning, a strange impossibility.

لَو كانَ حُبُّكَ صادِقاً لَأَطَعتَهُ

لَو كانَ حُبُّكَ صادِقاً لَأَطَعتَهُ

إِنَّ المُحِبَّ لِمَن يُحِبُّ مُطيعُ

إِنَّ المُحِبَّ لِمَن يُحِبُّ مُطيعُ

Were your love sincere, you would surely obey Him;

If your love were sincere, you would have obeyed Him.

For the lover is obedient to the one he loves.

Indeed, the lover obeys the one he loves.