عجبا لقلبك كيف يحمل وده

ويطيق من بعد التواصل بعده

How wondrous is your heart, carrying such love,

Enduring connection even after parting.

ما ذاك إلا أنه مستأنس

بالود فاستسلم السلامة حده

It must have grown accustomed

To affection, and so let down its guard of aloofness.

ربطته أسلاك الهوى بسميّه

فاذا بذاتك قد تجلت عنده

The strings of passion bound it with their melody,

And so your being was unveiled before it.

وتعاهد القلبان أن لا يعبآ

بنكاية الزمن المشخذ حده

And the two hearts promised not to find

Fault with the blow of time, however hard.

قل لليالي فلتفوق سهمها

مهما استطاعت فهوي حسن رده

Tell the nights to surpass with their arrows

As much as they are able; my love of your beauty is greater.

هذا حديث النفس في خلواتها

واللّه يعلم ما الذي يك بعده

This is the soliloquy of a soul in its aloneness,

And God knows what comes after it.