أحببتُكم يا مؤمنين محبةً

لم يحظَ منكم مثلَها من أهلهِ

I have loved you, O believers, with a love

whose like none among you has received from his own family,

حتى دفعتُ وحيدَ قلبي دونكم

يفدي الذي قد ضل عنه بجهلهِ

until I gave up my heart’s only one in your stead,

so he might ransom the one who, through ignorance, had strayed from him.