وَباخِلٍ قَدَّمَ لي شَمعَةً

وَباخِلٍ قَدَّمَ لي شَمعَةً

وَحالُهُ أَحرَقُ مِن حالِها

وَحالُهُ أَحرَقُ مِن حالِها

Many a miser presented me with a candle,

And a miser presented me with a candle,

his plight more searing than hers.

Yet he burned more fiercely than it did;

فَما جَرَت مِن عَينِها دَمعَةٌ

فَما جَرَت مِن عَينِها دَمعَةٌ

إِلّا وَمِن عَينَيهِ أَمثالُها

إِلّا وَمِن عَينَيهِ أَمثالُها

Not a tear ran from her eye

So no tear flowed from its eye

but many like it flowed from both of his.

Without matching tears flowing from his two eyes.