يا مَن يزيد إلى لقاه تشوّقي

يا مَن يزيد إلى لقاه تشوّقي

ولعزّه ذُلّي يزيد تشرّفي

ولعزّه ذُلّي يزيد تشرّفي

O you whom I long ever more to meet,

O you whose encounter increases my yearning

And my abasement before your glory increases my honor.

And for whose dignity my humiliation increases my honor

أغرقت جفني بالدموع صبابة

أغرقت جفني بالدموع صبابة

والقلب قد أحرقته بتأسُّف

والقلب قد أحرقته بتأسُّف

I drowned my eyelid in tears out of passionate longing,

I have drowned my eyelids in tears like rain

And I have burned my heart with sorrow.

And burned my heart with sorrow

كم لامني فيك العذول سفاهة

كم لامني فيك العذول سفاهة

يرجو بذلك عن هواك توقفي

يرجو بذلك عن هواك توقفي

How often the reproacher foolishly blamed me for loving you,

How foolish the censurers blamed me about you

Hoping thereby that I would cease loving you.

Hoping with that to stop my love for you

ناديت لو ذُقت الهوى يا عاذلي

ناديت لو ذُقت الهوى يا عاذلي

ما لُمت يعقوب الأسى في يوسف

ما لُمت يعقوب الأسى في يوسف

I cried: Had you tasted love, O my reproacher,

I called out, if you had tasted love, O criticizer

You would not have blamed Jacob for his grief over Joseph.

Jacob would not have blamed Joseph for his sorrow