أَتَرى هَيثَماً يُطيقُ تَرضّى

أَتَرى هَيثَماً يُطيقُ تَرضّى

حاجِبٍ جامِعٍ لَنا حاجِبَيهِ

حاجِبٍ جامِعٍ لَنا حاجِبَيهِ

Do you think Haytham can appease

Do you see Haytham able to bear my displeasure,

a chamberlain who knits his brows at us?

With his frowning eyebrows bringing them together for me?

أَم تَرى المَطلَ مُبقِياً لِيَ فَضلاً

أَم تَرى المَطلَ مُبقِياً لِيَ فَضلاً

مِن نَوالٍ أَنفَقتُ مِنهُ عَلَيهِ

مِن نَوالٍ أَنفَقتُ مِنهُ عَلَيهِ

Or do you think the stalling will leave me anything to spare

Or do you see the radiant one leaving a surplus for me

from a bounty some of which I have spent on him?

Of a gift I have spent from upon him?

لَستُ أَشكو إِلّا شَفيعي فَهَل لي

لَستُ أَشكو إِلّا شَفيعي فَهَل لي

مِن شَفيعٍ إِلى شَفيعي إِلَيهِ

مِن شَفيعٍ إِلى شَفيعي إِلَيهِ

I complain only of my intercessor; is there for me

I do not complain except to my intercessor, so is there for me

an intercessor with the one who intercedes for me with him?

An intercessor to my intercessor to him?