بسجعاتٍ قصارٍ فهْيَ تحكي

بسجعاتٍ قصارٍ فهْيَ تحكي

ليالي وصلِنا بالرقمتينِ

ليالي وصلِنا بالرقمتينِ

With short rhymed utterances, it recalls

With short rhymed prose it tells

The nights of our union at al-Raqmatayn.

Of the nights we connected by two eyelids

فإن يَرَها ابنُ مُقْلَة قال عنها

فإن يَرَها ابنُ مُقْلَة قال عنها

فداؤُكِ مقلتايَ أبي وعيني

فداؤُكِ مقلتايَ أبي وعيني

And if Ibn Muqla sees it, he says of it:

If the son of Muqlla sees them, he would say about them

“May my two Muqlas—my father and my eye—be your ransom.”

You are the ransom for my two eyelids, my father and my eyes