أما آنَ للهجرانِ أن يُعقِبَ الوَصلا

أما آنَ للهجرانِ أن يُعقِبَ الوَصلا

وللحبِّ أن يُمشى حكومَته عَدلا

وللحبِّ أن يُمشى حكومَته عَدلا

Is it not time for estrangement to give way to union,

Is it not time for estrangement to give way to reunion,

and for love’s rule to be conducted with justice?

And for love to exercise its rule justly?

لقَد طالَ جَورُ الحبِّ في الحكمِ واعتدَى

لقَد طالَ جَورُ الحبِّ في الحكمِ واعتدَى

عَلى أَهلهِ حتَّى أبادَهمُ قَتلا

عَلى أَهلهِ حتَّى أبادَهمُ قَتلا

Long has love’s tyranny endured in its rule and transgressed

Long indeed has love's injustice in judgment endured, and it has transgressed

against its own people, until it utterly destroyed them.

Against its own people until it slaughtered them all.