مُحِبٌّ طَوَى كَشْحاً على الزَّفَراتِ

مُحِبٌّ طَوَى كَشْحاً على الزَّفَراتِ

وَإنْسَانُ عَيْنٍ خاضَ في غَمَراتِ

وَإنْسَانُ عَيْنٍ خاضَ في غَمَراتِ

A lover who folded his flank around his sighs,

A lover endured affliction with patience

And an eye's pupil plunged into engulfing depths.

And a man with insight waded through deep waters

فَيا مَنْ بِعَيْنَيْهِ سَقامِي وَصِحَّتي

فَيا مَنْ بِعَيْنَيْهِ سَقامِي وَصِحَّتي

ومَنْ في يَدَيْهِ مِيتَتي وَحَياتي

ومَنْ في يَدَيْهِ مِيتَتي وَحَياتي

So, O you in whose eyes lie my sickness and my health,

So you who in your eyes is my sickness and health

And in whose hands lie my death and my life,

And who holds in your hands my death and life

بِحُبِّكَ عاشَرْتُ الهمُومَ صَبابَةً

بِحُبِّكَ عاشَرْتُ الهمُومَ صَبابَةً

كَأَنِّي لَها تِرْبٌ وَهُنَّ لِداتِي

كَأَنِّي لَها تِرْبٌ وَهُنَّ لِداتِي

For love of you, I kept company with sorrows in passionate longing,

With your love I have lived with sorrows as companions

As though I were their age-mate, and they my peers.

As if I am their soil and they seek my company

فَخدِّي أَرضٌ للدُّمُوعِ وَمُقْلتي

فَخدِّي أَرضٌ للدُّمُوعِ وَمُقْلتي

سَمَاءٌ لها تَنْهَلُّ بِالعَبَراتِ

سَمَاءٌ لها تَنْهَلُّ بِالعَبَراتِ

So my cheek is earth for tears, and my eye

So my cheek is a land for tears

A sky that pours down tears upon it.

And my eyelids a sky pouring down with teardrops