رب سر لما تعمد قلبي

رب سر لما تعمد قلبي

قتله ما وشى عليه لساني

قتله ما وشى عليه لساني

Many a secret—when my heart resolved

My Lord, why did You intend for my heart to bear

to kill it, my tongue did not betray it,

What my tongue has killed it with

أنفا أن يقال حامل سر

أنفا أن يقال حامل سر

ضاق ذرعا به عن الكتمان

ضاق ذرعا به عن الكتمان

out of disdain lest one say, 'A bearer of a secret

It is too proud to be called a secret-bearer

found it too much to bear and could not conceal it.'

It can barely contain it, much less conceal it