يَا بَدْرَ لَيْلٍ تَوَسَّطَ الفَلَكا

يَا بَدْرَ لَيْلٍ تَوَسَّطَ الفَلَكا

ذِكْرُكَ في القَلْبِ حَيْثما سَلكا

ذِكْرُكَ في القَلْبِ حَيْثما سَلكا

O full moon of night, poised at the center of heaven’s sphere,

O full moon of night, centered in the celestial sphere,

the thought of you dwells in my heart wherever it may go.

Your memory is in my heart wherever it wanders.

إِنْ تَكُ عن ناظري نَأَيْتَ فَقَدْ

إِنْ تَكُ عن ناظري نَأَيْتَ فَقَدْ

تَرَكْتَ عَقْلي عَلَيْكَ مُشْتَرَكا

تَرَكْتَ عَقْلي عَلَيْكَ مُشْتَرَكا

Though you have gone far from my sight—

If you have gone far from my sight, then indeed

you have left my mind distraught over you.

You have left my mind divided over you.

أَسْلَمْتُ عَيْنَيَّ لِلْسُّهادِ كما

أَسْلَمْتُ عَيْنَيَّ لِلْسُّهادِ كما

أَسْلَمَ جَفْني عليكَ ما مَلَكا

أَسْلَمَ جَفْني عليكَ ما مَلَكا

I consigned my eyes to sleeplessness, just as

I surrendered my eyes to sleeplessness, just as

my eyelid, for your sake, yielded all it possessed.

My eyelid yielded, for you, all it held.

ما كُنْتُ أَرْجو السُّلُوَّ مِنْ سَنَنِ

ما كُنْتُ أَرْجو السُّلُوَّ مِنْ سَنَنِ

الدَّمْعَةِ إِلاَّ لِشانىءٍ فَبَكَى

الدَّمْعَةِ إِلاَّ لِشانىءٍ فَبَكَى

I had never hoped for release from love in the course

I never hoped for solace from the course

of a tear—except an enemy’s; and he wept.

Of a tear, save for a hater—and he wept.

وَلا بَدا لي شَيءٌ سُرِرْتُ بِهِ

وَلا بَدا لي شَيءٌ سُرِرْتُ بِهِ

بَعْدَكَ إِلاّض نَظَرْتُ لي وَلَكا

بَعْدَكَ إِلاّض نَظَرْتُ لي وَلَكا

Nor, after you, did anything appear that gladdened me

And nothing that delighted me appeared to me

without my seeing it as ours—mine and yours.

After you, without my taking thought for myself and for you.