من يداوي لي فؤاداً

قد شكـا داء وداء

Who will cure me a heart

Who will heal my heart,

That complained of love-sickness and pain?

Which has complained of ailment after ailment?

سَلْ حبيبي كم طبيبٍ

حاذقٍ بالجهل بـاء

Ask my darling, how many a physician

Ask my beloved: how many a physician,

Skilled but ignorant has tried in vain

Though skilled, has ended up in ignorance,

عاجز عن فهم دائي

مادرى من أين جاء!

To understand my malady

Incapable of understanding my malady,

Not knowing whence it came!

Knowing not from whence it came!

لم أعدْ أرضي فؤاداً

واهـناً بالحب نـاء

No more can I appease a heart

I can no longer appease a heart,

Exhausted by love's joy and bane.

Frail and weighed down by love.

سَلْ غريمي كم دمـوعٍ

لم تصـحح ما أساء

Ask my critic, how many tears

Ask my tormentor: how many tears

Have failed to wash away the stain

Have failed to mend what he has wronged?

كيف أحيا دون قلبٍ

وهْوَ يلهو كيف شاء

Of wrong - how without a heart

How can I live without a heart,

That wantons as it will, remain?

While he plays however he pleases?

يا شهودي أنصفوني

من عنيد قد أسـاء

O witnesses, judge between us -

O my witnesses, grant me justice

Me and the tyrant who caused me pain!

Against a stubborn one who has done wrong.