من منصفي من حبيبٍ في محبته

أحيا وأيسرُ ما قاسيت ما قتلا

Who can be just to a lover in his love?

He keeps me alive and kills me by turns.

لولا لواحظه المرضى لما وجدت

لها المنايا إلى ارواحنا سبلا

If it were not for the sick I tend,

Death would have found no way to my soul.