سألتها أيُّ ناهٍ

سألتها أيُّ ناهٍ

نهاكِ عَنْ حسنِ قوجكْ

نهاكِ عَنْ حسنِ قوجكْ

I asked her, “Who

I asked her, whose shrewd whispers

forbade you your lovely embrace?”

Deterred you from your husband’s charm?

قالتْ نهانيَ زوجي

قالتْ نهانيَ زوجي

فقلتُ روحي بزوجكْ

فقلتُ روحي بزوجكْ

She said, “My husband forbade me.”

My husband warned me, she said

So I said, “Be off with your husband!”

I said, my soul, be with your husband