قَضَّيْتُ مَا وَعَدَ التَّلاَقِي

وَكَانَ وَعْدُهُ مَأْتِيَا

I have fulfilled what was promised by our meeting

I have fulfilled what our meeting had promised,

And his promise was destined to come

And its promise was always bound to come.

أَنْ أَصْطَلِي نَارَ الْفِرَا

قِ فَكَانَ حَتْماً مَقْضِيَا

That I quench the fire of separation

That I should burn in the flames of separation,

So it was inevitably fulfilled

Which was an absolute, inevitable decree.

اَلْبَيْنُ هَيَّجَ صَبْوَتِي

وَأَعَادَ لُبِّيَ مَسْبِيَا

The distance stirred up my passion

Parting has awakened my fervent yearning,

And made my determination a captive

And taken my mind captive once again.

وَالْبَيْنُ أَضْرَمَ لَوْعَتِي

وَأَصَارَ قَلْبِي مَكْوِيَا

And the distance caused my agony to blaze

Parting has set my anguish ablaze,

And made my heart roasted

And left my heart branded and seared.

وَالْبَيْنُ صَبَّرَ مُقْلَتِي

تَبْكِي الدِّمَاءَ تَعَدِّيَا

And the distance disciplined my love

Parting has condemned my eyes

To shed tears excessively

To weep tears of blood in cruel excess.

وَبِعَادُ مَالِكِ مُهْجَتِي

لِحَشَايَ أَمْسَى مُرْدِيَا

And the absence of my beloved

And the estrangement of the master of my soul

Made my eyes shed tears all night

Has become fatal to my very core.

وَمُعَذِّبِي بِعَذَابِ مَنْ

مَا دَانَ دِيناً مَرْضِيَا

And my tormentor, with the torment of one

And my tormentor inflicts the agony of one

Who never professed a satisfactory religion

Who professes no acceptable faith.

قَدْ قُلْتُ عِنْدَ وَدَاعِهِ

يَوْمَ الرَّحِيلِ تَمَنِّيَا

I had said, on the day of his farewell,

I said at the moment of his farewell,

On the day of departure, longingly:

On the day of departure, uttering a wish:

يَا لَيْتَنِي قَبْلَ الْوَدَا

عِ كُنْتُ نَسْياً مَنْسِيَا

Oh, if only before the farewell

Oh, would that I, before this farewell,

I had been completely forgotten

Had been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten.