أتَزْعُمُ أَن الفِطْرَ طُوَّقَنا شُكْرا

أتَزْعُمُ أَن الفِطْرَ طُوَّقَنا شُكْرا

ووجهُكَ قبلَ الفطرِ كان لنا فطرا

ووجهُكَ قبلَ الفطرِ كان لنا فطرا

Do you claim that Eid al-Fitr has bound us to gratitude,

You claim that nature has circled us with gratitude

when your face was a feast for us before Eid?

Yet your face, before nature, was our nature

هلالٌ بدا في إِثرِ بَدْرِ وَمَنْ رأى ال

هلالٌ بدا في إِثرِ بَدْرِ وَمَنْ رأى ال

هلالَ فأحرى أن يكونَ رأى البدرا

هلالَ فأحرى أن يكونَ رأى البدرا

A crescent appeared in the wake of a full moon; and whoever saw the

A crescent appeared after the full moon, and he who saw the

crescent is all the more likely to have seen the full moon.

Crescent, it is more fitting that he saw the full moon

لقد خلتُ شهرَ الصومِ يوماً ولم أَزَلْ

لقد خلتُ شهرَ الصومِ يوماً ولم أَزَلْ

إذا صُمْتُ يوماً واحداً خلتُهُ شهرا

إذا صُمْتُ يوماً واحداً خلتُهُ شهرا

Indeed, I thought the month of fasting a day, though I had always—

I have passed the month of fasting one day, and I have not ceased

whenever I fasted a single day—thought it a month.

If I fasted a single day, I would count it as a month

ولو أنَّ نفسي خُيِّرَتْ بين هجركمْ

ولو أنَّ نفسي خُيِّرَتْ بين هجركمْ

مُنَايَ وبين الموتِ ما اختارتِ الهجرا

مُنَايَ وبين الموتِ ما اختارتِ الهجرا

And were my soul given a choice between separation from you—

And if my soul was given a choice between your estrangement

my heart's desire—and death, it would not choose separation.

As my intimate, and between death, it would not choose estrangement