أمعذبي وعذوبة الثغر الذي

أمعذبي وعذوبة الثغر الذي

أحرمتنيه يقنع المحروما

أحرمتنيه يقنع المحروما

O my tormentor, by the sweetness of the mouth that

My tormentor torments me, and the sweetness of the lips that

you have denied me, which satisfies the deprived—

She denied me satisfies the deprived.

ما كنت من يلقى هواك وإنني

ما كنت من يلقى هواك وإنني

ألقى به قلبا رآه جحيما

ألقى به قلبا رآه جحيما

I would not have been one to encounter love for you—and indeed I

I was not one who met your love, yet

find in it a heart that saw it as Hell—

I cast upon it a heart that saw it as hell.

لولا فساد تصور العقل الذي

لولا فساد تصور العقل الذي

ظن الخصوص بأن يكون عموما

ظن الخصوص بأن يكون عموما

were it not for the mind's flawed conception, which

If not for the corruption of reason that

supposed the particular to be universal.

Thought exclusivity could become generality,

فعساك تسمح لي بقلب عيانه

فعساك تسمح لي بقلب عيانه

لأكون شاهد حال إبراهيما

لأكون شاهد حال إبراهيما

So perhaps you will grant me a reversal of its vision,

Perhaps you would forgive me for laying bare my heart

that I may be a witness to Abraham's state.

That I may witness the state of Abraham.