ظالمتي في الهوى لا تَظلمي

فتَصْرمي حَبلَ مَنَ لم يصْرِمِ

My cruelty in passion, do not be cruel

So you cut off the rope of one who did not cut it off

أَهكذا باطلاً عاقَبتنِي

لا يَرحمُ اللَّهُ مَن لم يَرحمِ

Is this how you have unjustly punished me?

May God not have mercy on one who has no mercy

قَتلتِ نفساً بلا نفسٍ وما

ذنبٌ بأعظمَ من سَفكِ الدّمِ

You killed a soul without a soul, yet

No sin is greater than shedding blood

لمثلِ هذا بكَتْ عيني ولا

للمنزلِ القفرِ وللأرْسُمِ

It's for this that my eyes wept but not

For the empty dwelling or the burial ground

ماذا وُقوفي على رسمٍ عَفا

مُخلَوْلقٍ دارِسٍ مُسْتعجمِ

What is my standing on tracings gone

A foreign house, an unfamiliar land