1. غريب على باب الرجاء طريح

    يناديك موصول الجوى وينوح

    A stranger lies prostrate at the gate of hope;

    He calls to you in ceaseless anguish and laments.

  2. يهون عذاب الجسم والروح سالم

    فكيف وروح المستهام جروح

    The body's torment is bearable while the soul is unharmed;

    But how, when the soul of the lovestruck is wounded?

  3. واهواك ولكنى اخاف واستحى

    اذا ما قلت قلبى فى هواك جريح

    And I love you, but I am afraid and shy

    When I say, 'My heart is wounded in loving you.'

  4. طريقى اليك الوجد والسهد والضنى

    ودمع اداري في الهوى ويبوح

    My path to you is ardor, sleeplessness, and wasting,

    And tears I conceal in love, yet they speak.

  5. يقولون لى غنى و بالقلب لوعة

    اغنى بها فى خلوتى وانوح

    They tell me, 'Sing,' while my heart holds burning grief;

    I sing of it in my solitude, and lament.

  6. ولى فى طريق الشوق والليل نائم

    معالم تخفى تارة وتلوح

    And on the path of longing, while night sleeps, I have

    Landmarks that now are hidden, now appear.

  7. ولى فى مقام الوجد حال نشوة

    بسر الهوى تغدو وفيه تروح

    And in the station of ardor, I have a state of rapture;

    With love's secret it goes forth in the morning, and in it returns in the evening.

  8. بكيت من اللى جرى لى من عذابه

    ولكن الهوى بالوالهين يصيح

    I wept over what befell me from its torment,

    But love cries out to the love-stricken.

  9. غريب على باب الرجاء طريح

    يناديك موصول الجوى وينوح

    A stranger lies prostrate at the gate of hope;

    He calls to you in ceaseless anguish and laments.

  10. يهون عذاب الجسم والروح سالم

    فكيف وروح المستهام جروح

    The body's torment is bearable while the soul is unharmed;

    But how, when the soul of the lovestruck is wounded?