دَعيني أمُت لَم آتِ في الحُبِّ بِدعَةً

دَعيني أمُت لَم آتِ في الحُبِّ بِدعَةً

وَلَم أَكُ فِيما لُمتِني فيهِ أَوحَدا

وَلَم أَكُ فِيما لُمتِني فيهِ أَوحَدا

Let me die; I have done nothing unprecedented in love,

Let me die, for I have not innovated in love

nor was I alone in what you reproached me for.

Nor have I been, where they blame me, alone

وَخَبَّرتِني عَن هَجرِها فَنَعَيتِ لي

وَخَبَّرتِني عَن هَجرِها فَنَعَيتِ لي

حَياتي وَكانَ الهَجرُ لِلمَوتِ مَوعِدا

حَياتي وَكانَ الهَجرُ لِلمَوتِ مَوعِدا

And you told me of her abandonment, thus announcing to me

And she told me of her estrangement, so she announced to me

my life's end; and abandonment was an appointment with death.

My life, though estrangement was fated for death