جَفْنِي ابْتُلِي بِالأَرَقِ

لِلَّهِ جَفْنِي مَا لَقِي

My eyelids are afflicted with insomnia

My eyelids are afflicted with sleeplessness,

To God, my eyelids found no rest

By God, what my eyelids have endured!

وَطَالَ لَيْلِي فَشَقِي

قَلْبِي بِنَارِ حُرَقِي

And my night grew long, so I suffered

And my night grew long, and so suffered

My heart burned with the fire of my suffering

My heart in the fire of my burning passion.

صِحْتُ أَسىً فِي الْغَسَقِ

ذَا كَلِفٍ وَقَلَقِ

I woke up in sorrow during the darkness

I cried out in sorrow in the deep darkness,

Exhausted and anxious

As one burdened by infatuation and anxiety.

يَا دَهْمَةَ اللَّيْلِ ارْفِقِي

بِمَا بَقِي مِنْ رَمَقِ

O darkness of the night, be gentle

O darkness of the night, be gentle

With what remains of my vigor

With what is left of my dying breath.

يَا لَيْتَ طُولَ أَرَقِي

يَعْلَمُ كَمْ مِنْهُ بَقِي

Oh, if only the length of my sleeplessness

Oh, would that my prolonged sleeplessness

Knew how much of it remains

Knew how much of it remains,

وَهَلْ لَهُ مِنْ فَلَقِ

And whether there is a crack in it for me

And whether it will ever have a dawn.