لو قيل لي من قبل ذا

لو قيل لي من قبل ذا

أن سوف تسلو من تود

أن سوف تسلو من تود

Had I been told before this,

Had I been told before that day

Had it been said to me before this day,

“You will forget the one you love,”

That you would grant peace to those you avoid

“You shall surely forget the one you love,”

لحلفت ألف قسامةٍ

لحلفت ألف قسامةٍ

لا كان ذا أبد الأبد

لا كان ذا أبد الأبد

I would have sworn a thousand solemn oaths:

I would have sworn a thousand oaths

I would have sworn a thousand solemn oaths:

“Never shall that be, for all eternity!”

That this could never be

“Never shall this be, for all eternity.”

وإذا طويل الهجر ما

وإذا طويل الهجر ما

معه من السلوان بد

معه من السلوان بد

But behold, prolonged estrangement leaves no

And if after long estrangement

Yet when estrangement stretches long and deep,

escape from the forgetting that comes with it.

There's no comfort to be found

Solace becomes an unavoidable fate.

للَه هجرك إنه

للَه هجرك إنه

ساعٍ لبرئي مجتهد

ساعٍ لبرئي مجتهد

God bless your estrangement, for it

Then estrange yourself, for it

By God, what a marvel is your abandonment—

strives diligently for my recovery.

Drives the ardent lover onward

A diligent healer, striving for my cure.

فالأن أعجب للسل

فالأن أعجب للسل

و وكنت أعجب للجلد

و وكنت أعجب للجلد

So now I marvel at forget-

Now I see the joy in reconciliation

So now I marvel at this quiet solace,

ting, though I once marveled at endurance.

When once I saw the merit of endurance

Whereas before, I marveled at my endurance,

وأرى هواك كجمرةٍ

وأرى هواك كجمرةٍ

تحت الرماد لها مدد

تحت الرماد لها مدد

And I see my love for you as an ember

And I see your love is like embers

Yet I still see your love as a live ember,

beneath the ashes, with fuel to sustain it.

Under ashes, with sustenance

Smoldering with sustained fuel beneath the ashes.