الآن إذ حل الفراق جدت لي

بخفي حب كنت تبدي بخله

Now that parting has come, you show me

Now that parting has come, you become generous to me

With concealed love you used to withhold

With a hidden love you once so fiercely withheld,

فزدتني في حسرتي أضعافها

ويحي فهلا كان هذا قبله

Thus multiplying my sorrow manifold

Only multiplying my sorrow manifold—

Alas, why was this not done before?

Woe to me! If only this had come before.