قُلْ لِمَنْ ضاهتِ الغزالةَ نوراً

وهي من طيبها غزالةُ مِسْكِ

Tell her whose radiance outshone the gazelle’s

Though the gazelle’s is of pure musk

أَنتِ في العينِ وَاللِّسانِ وَفي القل

بِ فَأَينَ استَقَرَّ قَدريَ مِنكِ

You are in my eyes, on my tongue, and in my heart

So where can my fate from you settle?

إِن نَقَضتِ الوفاءَ بِالغدرِ ظُلْماً

فَبِهذا أَشارَ طَرفُكِ عَنكِ

If you break loyalty with betrayal unjustly

Then by this your gaze hinted about you

لكِ قلبي صَفَا فلا غشّ فيه

وهو للهجرِ منك في نارِ سَبْكِ

To you my heart is pure, no deceit in it

And it is for your abandonment burning in embers

أضحَكَ الشامِتِينَ صَدُّكِ عَنِّي

بِدُموعي فَأَدْمُعُ القَلبِ تَبكي

Your turning away from me made the gloaters laugh

With my tears so the heart weeps tears