اتركْ بحقِكَ ما يقولُ المبغضُ

اتركْ بحقِكَ ما يقولُ المبغضُ

أنا قدْ رضيتُ الموتَ فيهم إنْ رضوا

أنا قدْ رضيتُ الموتَ فيهم إنْ رضوا

By your honor, disregard what the hater says.

Leave be what the hater says of your right

I have accepted death for their sake, if they approve.

I have accepted death among them if they accept

همْ نورُ عيني والسوادُ لناظري

همْ نورُ عيني والسوادُ لناظري

فإذا سلوتهمُ بمنْ أتعوَّضُ

فإذا سلوتهمُ بمنْ أتعوَّضُ

They are the light of my eye and the blackness of my pupil.

They are the light of my eye and the darkness for my onlooker

So if I forget them, whom could I take in their place?

So if I asked them with whom I could be consoled

بانوا فبانَ الصبرُ عنْ باناتِهِ

بانوا فبانَ الصبرُ عنْ باناتِهِ

وقرينَ سهدي قبضوا مذْ قوّضوا

وقرينَ سهدي قبضوا مذْ قوّضوا

They departed, and patience departed from its roots.

They appeared so patience was unveiled from its veilings

And since they struck camp, they have seized the companion of my sleeplessness.

And my bosom friend they captured when they shook it

كم خلَّفوا متطلِّعاً بطويلعٍ

كم خلَّفوا متطلِّعاً بطويلعٍ

وبرامةٍ كم من صحيحٍ أمرضوا

وبرامةٍ كم من صحيحٍ أمرضوا

How many a longing watcher they left behind at Tuwayliʿ!

How much yearning they left in the yearner

And at Ramah, how many healthy people they made ill!

And how many a sound they made ill

أنا قدْ رضيتُ بأنْ أموتَ بحبِّهم

أنا قدْ رضيتُ بأنْ أموتَ بحبِّهم

كمداً فلا يتعرَّضِ المتعرِّضُ

كمداً فلا يتعرَّضِ المتعرِّضُ

I have accepted that I should die for love of them,

I have accepted to die loving them

Of grief—so let no meddler interfere.

Suppressed so the intruder cannot intrude