الجسمُ في بَلَدٍ وَالرُّوحُ في بَلَدِ

يَا وحشَة الرُّوحِ بَلْ يَا غُربَةَ الجَسَدِ

The body in one country, the soul in another

O loneliness of the soul! O strangeness of the body!

إِنْ تَبْكِ عَيْنَاكَ لي يَا مَنْ كلِفْتُ بِهِ

مِنْ رَحمَةٍ فَهُما سَهْمانِ في كَبِدي

If your eyes weep for me, o you whom I charged

With mercy, they are arrows in my heart