1. Love is a sudden conquest that takes hold
It invades the folds of hearts and grasps them

2. I yearn for the beloved's union, imploring
His exhalations are blessings that abound

3. And I embroider poetry, delicate for his apparition
If he appears, in his cave I will seclude

4. If I fall in love, I embark on dreams of visions
To wander ardently, unaware, oblivious

5. And when I'm loved, I get drunk on the lips of passion
For the intoxication of passion cannot be relinquished

6. But woe to the night that conspired
And love in it is a crime, nay a demise

7. My worries are unyielding, not appeased with death
A relentless blade in sorrows that slaughters

8. The principles were lofty palms
They could not be reached amidst the fray

9. But alas, today we see them reversed
And our deep darkness has shrouded them

10. We were the highest aspirations
But now we wander aimlessly, our path concealed

11. Alas, the light of Arabism has faded
And patience from the adversity is exhausted

12. The leaders of my people have been fully "Israelized"
They abandoned Arabism, shameless, "Americanized"

13. They wreaked havoc on the Arabs, drying up their trees
So they fragmented and scattered by the hands of enemies

14. Woe to us, we have become prey for derision
Our honor in the field is plundered and violated

15. Flirting with gazelles is now frivolity
While the blood of free women in my country is shed