سائِلاً قَنداً خَليلي

كَيفَ أَرواحُ رُقَيَّه

Asking my friend Qanda

How are the souls of delicacy

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ مِنها

بَدَلاً حُبَّ إِلَيَّه

I have been changed from it

To the love of it being changed

إِنَّني بُدِّلتُ خَوداً

ذاتَ دَلٍّ بَختَرِيَّه

I have been changed, a cheek

With a dangling bucket

غادَةَ الجِسمِ رَداحاً

مِثلَ قَرنِ الشَمسِ هِيَّه

The body swings back

Like the horn of the sun it sways

نَبَتَت كَالغُصنِ وَسطَ ال

ماءِ فَرعى قُرَشِيَّه

It grew like a branch in the middle of

Water a Qurashi tribe grazed

فَاِبتَغي غَيري صَديقاً

ثُمَّ لا تَأسى عَلَيَّه

So seek other than me as a friend

Then do not despair for me