كم تجرّعنا هوانا

ولقينا في هوانا

How much humiliation we have tasted,

And found in our humiliation,

وبلونا نار حب

لم نذق فيها أمانا

The fire of ardent love,

In which we knew no peace.

وإذا حلّ الهوى هي

هات تدري كيف كانا

When passion took hold of us,

Could you know how we were?

فإذا ما ملك الأن

فس أصلاها عوانا

For when the soul rules,

It is a steady flame, beyond compare.

فهو نصل مستقر

ولهيب لا يدانى

My beloved, the night has stilled

The only wakeful thing between us.

يا حبيبي هدأ اللي

ل ولم يسهر سوانا

Neither has the darkness healed my wound,

Nor the dawn brought remedy.

لا الدجى ضمَّد جرحي

نا ولا الصّبح شفانا

Passion was not gentle with me,

Nor cruel with you.

لا الهوى رقّ على الش

شاكي ولا قاسيه لانا

We have become targets for archers,

However they wished to aim at us.

قد غدونا غرض الر

رامي كما شاء رمانا

So I swear by God, we knock

On the temple of love, both of us.

وافني بالله نَطرق

هيكل الحب كلانا

One hour we weep over the cup,

And complain of him who pours for us.

ساعة نبكي على الكأس

ونشكو من سقانا