طولُ اِشتِياقي وَضيقُ مُصطَبَري

يُقَلِّبانِ الفُؤادَ بِالفِكرِ

My yearning is long, and my patience wears thin

The length of my yearning and the limits of my patience

Turning my heart over with anxious thoughts within

Toss my heart about in endless thought.

فَالحُبُّ ضَيفٌ عَلَيَّ مُعتَكِفٌ

وَالقَلبُ مِن مِحنَةٍ عَلى خَطَرِ

Love is my guest, cloistered away in my core

For love is a guest that has taken sanctuary within me,

While my heart is in peril, tempting fate evermore

And my heart, from this ordeal, stands on the brink of danger.

يَبتَعِثُ الشَوقَ مِن مَكامِنِهِ

وَجهٌ زَها حُسنُهُ عَلى القَمَرِ

Longing awakes from its slumber deep inside

Awakening longing from its hidden recesses

A face as fair as the moon in its pride

Is a face whose beauty glories over the moon.