إن قالَ صفني وصِفْ رفيقي

إن قالَ صفني وصِفْ رفيقي

قلتُ لهُ تاركَ التحابي

قلتُ لهُ تاركَ التحابي

If he says, “Describe me, and describe my companion to me,”

If he says, “Describe me and describe my companion,”

I tell him, setting mutual favoritism aside:

I say to him, setting favoritism aside:

أنت حسابٌ بلا عطاءٍ

أنت حسابٌ بلا عطاءٍ

وَهْوَ عطاءٌ بلا حسابِ

وَهْوَ عطاءٌ بلا حسابِ

“You are my careful reckoning, without my giving;

“You are reckoning without giving,

and he is my giving, without reckoning.”

And he is giving without reckoning.”