جِنانُ إِن جُدتِ يا مُنايَ بِما

آمُلُ لَم تَقطُرِ السَماءُ دَما

My love, if you refuse me what I hope for

Jinan, if you grant, O my desire, that for which

I fear the sky will rain not water but blood

I hope, the heavens will not weep tears of blood.

وَإِن تَمادَي وَلا تَمادَيتِ في

مَنعِكِ أُصبِح بِقَفرَةٍ رِمَما

And if you persist in denying me

But if you persist—may you never persist—in

I'll become a ruin in the desert sands

Your refusal, I shall become decayed bones in the waste.

عَلِقتُ مَن لَو أَتى عَلى أَنفُسِ ال

ماضينَ وَالغابِرينَ ما نَدِما

I've hung on though others of the past would,

I am bound to one who, if she claimed the souls of

If they returned, regret their stubbornness

The ancients and those to come, would feel no regret.

لَو نَظَرَت عَينُهُ إِلى حَجَرٍ

وَلَّدَ فيهِ فُتورُها سَقَما

If his gaze fell upon a stone it would

Were her eye to cast its gaze upon a stone,

Sicken that stone with his own listlessness

Its languid look would breed a sickness within it.