عيني أسأت إلى فؤادي

عيني أسأت إلى فؤادي

فرمى جفونك بالسهادِ

فرمى جفونك بالسهادِ

My eye, you have wronged my heart;

My eyes have done my heart wrong

so it struck your eyelids with sleeplessness.

So your eyelids cast it into slumber

فابكيهِ وابكي ما عدم

فابكيهِ وابكي ما عدم

ت فلا سبيل إلى رقادِ

ت فلا سبيل إلى رقادِ

So weep for it, and weep for what you have lost;

Weep for it and weep for what is lost

for there is no way to sleep.

You are tired, there is no path to sleep

وكلته بمدللٍ

وكلته بمدللٍ

فرماه في وضح السوادِ

فرماه في وضح السوادِ

You entrusted it to a pampered one;

You left it to wander

so he cast it into the brightness of blackness.

So it cast itself into the light of dusk

يا عين كيف بذلتي

يا عين كيف بذلتي

أمكنتِ قلبي من قيادي

أمكنتِ قلبي من قيادي

O eye, how, through my abasement,

Oh eye how could you give up

have you given my heart control over my reins?

You handed over my heart from my guidance