إن لم يكن مدنفاً كما زعما

فلِم بكت مقلتي عليهِ دما

If he is not a slanderer as they claimed,

Why did my eyelids shed tears of blood for him?

أستشهدُ الشوقَ والدموعَ على

ما بيَ منهُ والحزنَ والسقَما

I call upon longing and tears to witness

The sorrow, grief, and illness he left me.

في أيِّ شيءٍ يرى الضَّنى بدَني

وصِرتُ مِما لقيتهُ علَما

In what does he see wrong with my body,

When I have become, because of him, a sign?

وحبِّهِ ما سَلوته قسماً

بالحبِّ إن كانَ يقبلُ القَسَما

By love I swear, if oaths Love will allow,

I never asked of his love a binding vow.