أرق المُحب وَعادَهُ سَهَدُه

أرق المُحب وَعادَهُ سَهَدُه

لِطَوارِقِ الهم الَّتي ترِدُه

لِطَوارِقِ الهم الَّتي ترِدُه

The lover lay awake, and his sleeplessness revisited him

The lover's wakefulness returned to him,

because of sorrow’s night visitors that come to him.

Due to worries that afflict him,

وَذَكَرت من رَقَّت لَهُ كَبدي

وَذَكَرت من رَقَّت لَهُ كَبدي

وَابى فَلَيسَ تَرِق لي كَبدُه

وَابى فَلَيسَ تَرِق لي كَبدُه

And I remembered the one for whom my liver grew tender,

And I remembered how my liver softened for him,

and he refused, so his liver does not grow tender for me.

Yet his liver does not soften for me,

لا قَومُهُ قَومي وَلا بَلَدي

لا قَومُهُ قَومي وَلا بَلَدي

فَنَكونُ حيناً جيرَة بلدُه

فَنَكونُ حيناً جيرَة بلدُه

His people are not my people, nor is my land

Neither are his people my people, nor his land my land,

his land, so that we might be neighbors for a time.

So we could be neighbors in his land someday,

وَوَجدتُ وَجداً لَم يَكُن احد

وَوَجدتُ وَجداً لَم يَكُن احد

قَبلي من اجل صبابَة يجدُه

قَبلي من اجل صبابَة يجدُه

And I felt an anguish of love that no one

And I found a passion no one before me

before me had felt from ardent longing,

Had ever felt for a girl so graceful,

إِلّا اِبنُ عجلانَ الَّذي تبلت

إِلّا اِبنُ عجلانَ الَّذي تبلت

هند فَفاتَ بِنَفسِهِ كمدُه

هند فَفاتَ بِنَفسِهِ كمدُه

except Ibn Ajlan, made lovesick by

Except Ibn ‘Ujalān who lost himself in love

Hind; his grief then carried off his life.

For Hind and wasted away in his yearning.