غُصِصتُ مِنكَ بِما لا يَدفَعُ الماءُ

وَصَحَّ هَجرُكَ حَتّى ما بِهِ داءُ

I have been wounded by you in ways no water can heal,

I choke on a grief from you that water cannot clear,

And your abandonment of me became a festering disease.

And your estrangement is so sound, it bears no flaw.

قَد كانَ يَكفيكُمُ إِن كانَ عَزمُكُمُ

أَن تَهجُروني مِنَ التَصريحِ إيماءُ

It would have sufficed, had you decided

It would have sufficed you, had it been your resolve

To shun me with a gesture - that would have been enough.

To cast me off, to verify it by a gesture, not a word.

وَما نَسيتُ مَكانَ الآمِرينَ بِذا

مِنَ الوُشاةِ وَلَكِن في فَمي ماءُ

Yet I have not forgotten who commanded this

I have not forgotten the standing of those who ordered this

Of the talebearers, though my mouth holds water.

From among the slanderers, yet my mouth is filled with water.

ما زِلتُ أَسمَعُ حَتّى صِرتُ ذاكَ بِمَن

قامَت قِيامَتُهُ وَالناسُ أَحياءُ

I kept on hearing until I became like one

I ceased not to hear until I became as one for whom

Whose time had come while people still lived.

The Resurrection has arisen while all mankind lives on.

قَد كُنتُ ذا اِسمٍ فَقَد أَصبَحتُ يُعرَفُ لي

مِمّا أُكابِدُ في حُبَّيكِ أَسماءُ

Once I had a name, but now I am known

I was once a man of one name, but now there are known for me,

By the torments I endure in loving you.

From all I suffer in your love, a multitude of names.