1. مَن مُنصِفي منكَ يا ظَلُومُ

    أَسقَمني طرفُكَ السَّقيمُ

    Who will win me justice from you, O cruel one?

    Your ailing gaze has made me ill.

  2. برحَ بي في هَواكَ حُبٌّ

    أنتَ بهِ عارفٌ عليمُ

    In my love for you, a passion has tormented me;

    you know it and understand it well.

  3. يا بدرَ تمٍّ لهُ الثُّريَّا

    ثَغرق بهِ تَكثرُ النُّجومُ

    O full moon, for whom the Pleiades

    are a mouth in which the stars abound.

  4. ويا هِلالاً على قَضيبٍ

    أَقعَدني عِطفُهُ القَويمُ

    And O crescent moon upon a slender branch,

    whose upright figure has laid me low.

  5. أَمَا لهذا الصُّدود عَنِّي

    حدٌّ أَمَا أنتَ لي رَحيمُ

    Has this turning away from me no

    limit? Are you not merciful to me?

  6. فَما لَوَى العهدُ دمعَ عيني

    سفحٌ وما وَجدِيَ الصَّريمُ

    For the pledge has not held back my eye's tears;

    they pour forth, and my longing is unbroken.

  7. وفي الحمَى أنتَ من فُؤادي

    على سُويدائِهِ مُقيمُ

    And in the sanctuary of my heart, you

    dwell at its very core.

  8. سكنتَ قلبي وذا عجيبٌ

    كيفَ حَوَى الجنَّة الجحيمُ

    You have settled in my heart, and this is strange:

    How has Hell come to contain Paradise?

  9. إِن لَقِيَ الطَّرفُ مِنكَ بُؤساً

    فَالقَلبُ قَد حَلَّهُ النَّعيمُ

    If the eye has met with misery from you,

    then bliss has come to dwell within the heart.