دوَما نَزَحَت لِلعَينِ بَعدَكِ عَبرَةٌ

إِذا اِنحَدَرَت قادَت لَها أَخَواتِ

Ever since you left, a tear has continually welled in my eye;

whenever it falls, it leads its sisters after it.

وَأَستَرزِقُ الرَحمَن لِلعَينِ نَظرَةً

إِلَيكِ تُداويها مِنَ العَبَراتِ

And I seek from the All-Merciful, as provision for my eye, one glance

toward you, to heal it of its tears.

فَإِن مُتُّ بِالشَوقِ الَّذي بي إِلَيكُمُ

فَتِلكَ لَعَمري حَسرَةُ الحَسَراتِ

If I should die of the longing within me for you,

then that—by my life—would be the anguish of all anguishes.