تهز قلبي بعد رقدته

كالريح هزت جانب العلم

It shakes my heart after its slumber

Like the wind shook the side of the flag

تمشي الهوينا في جوانبه

كالفجر يطرق حالك الظلم

Our love walks through its aspects

Like the dawn knocking on the darkness of your situation

ترمى به من نارها شررا

فتثير فيه رواقد الهمم

It throws sparks of its fire upon it

Igniting in it the embers of determination

وسمعت منها يوم أن طرقت

قلبي رنين الهجر والسقم

And I heard it when it knocked

On my heart the echo of estrangement and illness

فكأنها نبع يفيض بما

يحويه قلب الصب من ألم

It's as if it were a spring overflowing with

What the heart of the young one contains of pain

وتعيد من ماضي ما شهدت

عيناي من بؤس ومن نعم

And it brings back from the past what

My eyes witnessed of misery and blessings

وتضيئه من بعد ظلمته

فكأنها تحييه من عدم

And it illuminates it after its darkness

As if bringing it back from non-existence

وكأنه صحراء مجدبة

ظمأى لقطر الصيب العرم

And it's as if it were a barren desert

Thirsty for a drop of ripe rain

وكأنها نهر تغمدها

بالجود من سلساله الشيم

And it's as if it were a river covered

With generosity from a chain of decency

أو جنة الماضي قد انبثقت

منها لنفسي زهرة العدم

Or the garden of the past that sprouted

From it for my soul the flower of nothingness