لم ينل من وجودنا

الذي أنت نلته

He has not attained from our existence

What you have attained

غاية الأمر أنْ يكو

ن الذي أنت كنته

The matter is just that he would be

What you have been

فإذا ما رايته

مقبلا قلت أنت هو

So if I see him

Coming I say you are him

وإذا ما رأيته

مدبرا قلت

And if I see him

Leaving I say

إن فيكم علامة

من تفته قد فته

Indeed among you is a sign

For whom is confused has confused him

ما لمجنون عامر

غير ما قد سمعته

What's with crazy Aamer

Except what I've heard of him

من هوى بنت عمه

وهي من قد علمته

Of passion for his cousin

And she's who I know of him

لم يكن غير سيِّدي

في شخيصٍ نصبته

None other was my master

In an image I've made of him

فبه قد أنته

وبه قد سترته

So through it I've ended him

And through it I've veiled him

فإذا ما جهلته

فاعلم أن قد علمته

So if I'm ignorant of him

Know that I have known him