سلطان حسنك بحكم الجور خلّيته

سلطان حسنك بحكم الجور خلّيته

على الحشا وبغاراتك توليته

على الحشا وبغاراتك توليته

You let your beauty’s power rule unjustly

Your tyrannical rule made a sultan of your beauty

Over my heart, and with your raids you took control of it.

You assigned it to wander the hills and caves

هجَّجت قلبي ومنهُ الصدر أخليته

هجَّجت قلبي ومنهُ الصدر أخليته

حتى لحقتك ولا ادري اين خليته

حتى لحقتك ولا ادري اين خليته

You drove my heart to flight and emptied my breast of it,

You stirred my heart and emptied my chest of it

Until I caught up with you—and I do not know where I left it.

Until I reached you, not knowing where you had abandoned it