جِنانُ إِن جُدتِ يا مُنايَ بِما

جِنانُ إِن جُدتِ يا مُنايَ بِما

آمُلُ لَم تَقطُرِ السَماءُ دَما

آمُلُ لَم تَقطُرِ السَماءُ دَما

Jinan, if you grant me, O my heart's desire, what

My love, if you refuse me what I hope for

Jinan, if you grant, O my desire, that for which

I hope for, the sky will not drip blood.

I fear the sky will rain not water but blood

I hope, the heavens will not weep tears of blood.

وَإِن تَمادَي وَلا تَمادَيتِ في

وَإِن تَمادَي وَلا تَمادَيتِ في

مَنعِكِ أُصبِح بِقَفرَةٍ رِمَما

مَنعِكِ أُصبِح بِقَفرَةٍ رِمَما

And if you persist—may you not persist—in

And if you persist in denying me

But if you persist—may you never persist—in

your refusal, I shall become decaying bones in a wilderness.

I'll become a ruin in the desert sands

Your refusal, I shall become decayed bones in the waste.

عَلِقتُ مَن لَو أَتى عَلى أَنفُسِ ال

عَلِقتُ مَن لَو أَتى عَلى أَنفُسِ ال

ماضينَ وَالغابِرينَ ما نَدِما

ماضينَ وَالغابِرينَ ما نَدِما

I fell in love with one who, were he to take the lives of the

I've hung on though others of the past would,

I am bound to one who, if she claimed the souls of

departed and those yet to come, would feel no remorse.

If they returned, regret their stubbornness

The ancients and those to come, would feel no regret.

لَو نَظَرَت عَينُهُ إِلى حَجَرٍ

لَو نَظَرَت عَينُهُ إِلى حَجَرٍ

وَلَّدَ فيهِ فُتورُها سَقَما

وَلَّدَ فيهِ فُتورُها سَقَما

If his eye were to gaze upon a stone,

If his gaze fell upon a stone it would

Were her eye to cast its gaze upon a stone,

its languor would breed sickness in it.

Sicken that stone with his own listlessness

Its languid look would breed a sickness within it.