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The jinn have knocked with their eyes,

الجن قد طرقت بأعينها

1. The jinn have knocked with their eyes,
Whoever was struck by the human's eye.

١. الجنُّ قد طَرَقت بأَعيُنِها
مَنْ قَد أُصِيبَ بِعَينهِ الإِنسُ

2. When he stumbled into eyes, he fell,
And so did my soul stumble in my body.

٢. لمَّا تعثَّر بالعيون هَوَى
فتعثَّرت في جِسْمِيَ النَّفسُ

3. His forehead cracked open and flowed
Blood from it as if it were the warp.

٣. وانشق منه جَبِينُه فجرت
مِنْه الدِّماءُ كأَنَّه الوَرْسُ

4. My heart cracked it with his forehead,
This one softens and that one hardens.

٤. قلبي وشَجَّته بِجَبْهَتهِ
هذا يرقُّ وهذه تقْسُو

5. So let lovers believe in me, for indeed
The cover has been removed and confusion dispelled.

٥. فليؤمِن العُشَّاق بي فَلَقَدْ
كُشِفَ الغِطَاءُ وكُشِفَ اللبس

6. If the moon did not split for me,
Then I am the one for whom the sun split.

٦. إِن كان لم يشَقَّ لي قمرٌ
فأَنا الَّذي انْشَقَّت لَهُ الشَّمسُ