رقّ لي يا قلب مَن هجرا

رقّ لي يا قلب مَن هجرا

والذي باهى به القمَرا

والذي باهى به القمَرا

Be tender to me, O heart of the one who forsook me,

My heart is gentle, though abandoned by the one

And by Him who boasted of him before the moon,

Whose beauty outshone even the moon.

فوَحسنٍ أنتَ مالكهُ

فوَحسنٍ أنتَ مالكهُ

مَلك الأبصارَ والنظرا

مَلك الأبصارَ والنظرا

So, by the beauty you possess,

For you possess a beauty he owned -

That has captured eyes and the gaze,

Who commandeered all eyes and their gaze.

وَالذي أنشاكَ من بدَعٍ

وَالذي أنشاكَ من بدَعٍ

أخضعت طوعاً لكَ البَشرا

أخضعت طوعاً لكَ البَشرا

And by Him who fashioned you from wonders

He who shaped you out of wonders

That made humankind willingly submit to you,

Subjugated all mankind willingly to you.

لا منعتُ العينَ عبرَتها

لا منعتُ العينَ عبرَتها

لا ولا أجفانها السهرا

لا ولا أجفانها السهرا

I have not denied the eye its tears,

I do not forbid my eyes their tears,

No, nor its eyelids sleeplessness.

Nor my eyelids their wakefulness.