1. أيا من تجرّعتُ من فُقده

    كؤوساً من الصبر مرّ المذاقِ

    O you, whose absence has made me drink

    cups of patience, bitter to the taste.

  2. لإِنَّ غابَ شخصُك عن ناظري

    فإنْ ودادك في القلب باقِي

    Though your form has vanished from my sight,

    love for you surely remains within my heart.

  3. وسوف قريباً يعود التمامُ

    لبدرِ التواصل بعدَ المحاقِ

    And soon fullness will return

    to the full moon of communion, after its dark phase.

  4. لَعلّ الذي قدّر الافتراق

    يمنّ قريباً لنا بالتلاقي

    Perhaps He who decreed our separation

    will soon favor us with reunion.

  5. وما جفّ دمعي يومَ الوداع

    سلوّاً ولا قلّ فيك اشتياقي

    And my tears did not dry on the day of farewell

    because I had found solace, nor did my longing for you wane.

  6. ولكِنْ بكيتُ لِخَوفِ الفراقِ

    فأفْنيته قبل يومِ الفِراقِ

    Rather, I had wept for fear of parting,

    and so had exhausted them before the day of parting.

  7. وليس الدموعُ دليل الفجوع

    ولو أنهنّ جرحْنَ المآقي

    And tears are no proof of grief,

    even if they wound the inner corners of the eyes.

  8. فربّ امْرِئٍ دمعُه فايضٌ

    ولكنّه فائضٌ عن نِفاقِ

    For many a man's tears overflow,

    yet they overflow from hypocrisy;

  9. وذي حزنٍ قد عَصَتْهُ الدّموعُ

    وأحشاؤه لِلنَوى في احتراقِ

    and many a grieving man's tears defy him,

    while his entrails burn from separation.