إِنّي حُمِمتُ وَلَم أَشعُر بِحُمّاكا

حَتّى تَحَدَّثَ عُوّادي بِشَكواكا

I was seized by fever, yet sensed not your fire,

Until my visitors spoke of the ailment afflicting you.

فَقُلتُ ما كانَتِ الحُمّى لِتَعهَدَني

مِن غَيرِ ما عِلَّةٍ إِلّا لِحُمّاكا

Then I said: The fever would never have come to visit me,

Without a cause, save that it first had visited you.

وَخَصلَةٍ هِيَ أَيضاً يُستَدَلُّ بِها

عافانِيَ اللَهُ مِنها حينَ عافاكا

And there is yet another sign by which this truth is known:

God granted me recovery the very moment He healed you.

أَمّا إِذا اِتَّفَقَت نَفسي وَنَفسُكَ في

هَذا وَذاكَ وَفي هَذا وَفي ذاكا

Thus, if my soul and yours have come to such accord,

In this event and that, sharing in every state and hue,

فَكُن لَنا رَحمَةً نَفسي فِداكَ وَلا

تَكُن خِلافاً لِما ذو العَرشِ سَمّاكا

Then be a mercy unto us—may my soul be your ransom—

And be not contrary to what the Lord of the Throne named you.

فَقَد عَلِمتَ يَقيناً أَو سَتَعلَمُهُ

صَنيعَ حُبِّكَ في قَلبي وَذِكراكا

For you have known with certainty, or shall soon come to know,

What your love and memory have wrought within my heart.