1. خَبَّروها بِأَنَّني قَد تَزَوَّج

    تُ فَظَلَّت تُكاتِمُ الغَيظَ سِرّا

    They told her that I had married,

    so she kept concealing her anger in secret.

  2. ثُمَّ قالَت لِأُختِها وَلِأُخرى

    لَيتَهُ كانَ قَد تَزَوَّجَ عَشرا

    Then she said to her sister and to another,

    “If only he had married ten women!”

  3. وَأَشارَت إِلى نِساءٍ لَدَيها

    لا تَرى دونَهُنَّ لِلسِرِّ سِترا

    And she gestured toward women beside her,

    seeing no veil for her secret apart from them:

  4. ما لِقَلبي كَأَنَّهُ لَيسَ مِنّىً

    وَعِظامي إِخالُ فيهِنَّ فَترا

    “What ails my heart, as though it were not mine?

    And in my bones, I think, there is a languor,

  5. مِن حَديثٍ نَمى إِلَيَّ فَظيعٍ

    خِلتُ في القَلبِ مِن تَلَظّيهِ جَمرا

    from dreadful news that reached me;

    from its blazing, I imagined embers within my heart.”