بِاللَهِ رَبُّكُما عِوَجاً عَلى سُكنى

حَيثُ الحَبيبِ مِنّي قَلبي مَشرَفُهُ

By your Lord, crooked is my abode without my beloved

Where my heart has its windows overlooking

فَإِن تُبدي فَلَوماهُ عَلى حَزَني

وَعاتِباهُ لَعَلَّ العَتبَ يَعطِفُهُ

If you reveal my sorrow to blame him

And reproach him, perhaps reproach may incline him

وَعَرَضا بي وَقَولاً في حَديثِكُما

مِن بَعدِ بَثِّكُما ما قَد يُؤَلِّفُهُ

Mention me in your talk after you both have conversed

With words that may reconcile him

إِن كانَ عِندَكَ بِالوَصلِ الجَميلِ رِضى

ما بالُ عَبدِكَ بِالهِجرانِ تُتلِفُهُ

If you are pleased with a beautiful union

Why make your servant familiar with estrangement?

فَإِن تَبسِمَ قَولاً في مَحاسِنِهِ

عَساكَ بِالوَصلِ يا ذا الفَضلِ تُنصِفُهُ

If he smiles at words about his charms

May you equitably unite him with me, O virtuous one

وَإِن بَدا لَكُما في وَجهِهِ غَضَبٌ

وَقَد تَلاعَبَ تَحتَ الجَفنِ مُرهِفُهُ

And if anger shows in his face

And caprice plays beneath his frowning eyelid

وَقالَ ماذا الَّذي قُتلُم وَمَن هُوَ ذا

فَغالِطاهُ وَقَولاً لَيسَ تَعرِفُهُ

And he says "who has killed you and who is this one?"

Then convince him, saying "you do not know him"