سَقياً لمَوقِفِنا عشيَّةَ بالحِمى

سَقياً لمَوقِفِنا عشيَّةَ بالحِمى

نَشكو الغَرامَ ولَفظُنا الألحاظُ

نَشكو الغَرامَ ولَفظُنا الألحاظُ

May rain bless the place where we stood one evening in the sanctuary,

May rain bless the place where we stood one evening in the protected grounds.

The trysting place on the sultry eve

Lamenting love, while our glances were our speech.

We complain of love, and our speech is glances.

where we complain of love while whispering gazes,

وعَواذِلي لمَّا تَشابَهَ أمرُنا

وعَواذِلي لمَّا تَشابَهَ أمرُنا

هَجَعُوا أسَىً لكنًّهم أيقاظُ

هَجَعُوا أسَىً لكنًّهم أيقاظُ

And when my reproachers could no longer make sense of our affair,

And my reproachers, when our affair grew obscure,

and my companions when our plight is one,

They slumbered from sorrow, though they were awake.

slumbered in sorrow, yet they were awake.

retire to sleep though wakeful.

فكأنَّنا المَعنَى المُرادُ لَطافَةً

فكأنَّنا المَعنَى المُرادُ لَطافَةً

وكأنَّهم في صَمتِنا الأَلفاظُ

وكأنَّهم في صَمتِنا الأَلفاظُ

It was as though, in our subtlety, we were the intended meaning,

So, in subtlety, we were like the intended meaning,

As though we are pure spirit in meaning,

And they, amid our silence, were the words.

and they, in our silence, were like the words.

and they, in our silence, but empty words.