وَقائلَةٍ وَقَد بَصُرَت بِدَمعٍ

وَقائلَةٍ وَقَد بَصُرَت بِدَمعٍ

عَلى الخدَين مُنحَدرٍ سكوبِ

عَلى الخدَين مُنحَدرٍ سكوبِ

A woman, when she caught sight of tears

And a woman said, having seen tears

A woman's words as she gazed with tear-filled eyes,

streaming profusely down both cheeks, said:

Streaming, pouring down both cheeks:

Streams descending upon her cheeks.

أَتَكذِبُ في البُكاء وأَنت خِلوٌ

أَتَكذِبُ في البُكاء وأَنت خِلوٌ

قَديماً ما جَسَرتَ عَلى الذُنوبِ

قَديماً ما جَسَرتَ عَلى الذُنوبِ

“Do you feign your weeping, though you are free of love?

"Do you feign weeping, though free of love?

Do you lie in weeping while you are free

How long you have dared to sin!

Long have you dared to sin.

Of sins long past you never dared.

قَميصك والدُموع تَجول فيهِ

قَميصك والدُموع تَجول فيهِ

وَقلبكَ لَيسَ بِالقَلبِ الكَئيب

وَقلبكَ لَيسَ بِالقَلبِ الكَئيب

Your shirt, with tears coursing over it,

Your shirt, with tears coursing through it,

Your shirt and tears wander about in it

while your heart is no sorrowing heart,

While your heart is no sorrowful heart,

While your heart feels no grief.

نَظير قَميص يوسُفَ حينَ جاؤوا

نَظير قَميص يوسُفَ حينَ جاؤوا

عَلى أَلبابهِ بِدمٍ كَذوب

عَلى أَلبابهِ بِدمٍ كَذوب

is like Joseph’s shirt when they brought it

Is like Joseph's shirt when they came

Like Joseph's shirt when they came

with false blood upon its breast.”

With lying blood upon its collar."

With false blood upon its hems.

فَقُلتُ لَها فِداكِ أَبي وأُمي

فَقُلتُ لَها فِداكِ أَبي وأُمي

رَجمتِ بِسوء ظَنّكِ في الغُيوبِ

رَجمتِ بِسوء ظَنّكِ في الغُيوبِ

I said to her, “May my father and mother be your ransom—

So I said to her, "May my father and mother be your ransom!

So I said, may my father and mother be your ransom,

through your ill suspicion, you have guessed at things unseen.

You have guessed at the unseen with your ill suspicion.

You have stoned with your ill assumption of the hidden.

أَما واللَهِ لَو فتَّشتِ قَلبي

أَما واللَهِ لَو فتَّشتِ قَلبي

بِسرّكِ بالعويل وَبالنَحيب

بِسرّكِ بالعويل وَبالنَحيب

Nay, by God, if you searched my heart,

Indeed, by God, if only you searched my heart,

By God, if you probed my heart

you would find it wailing and lamenting over your secret.

With your secret, with wailing and sobbing!

With your secret in wailing and lament.

دُموعُ العاشِقينَ إِذا تلاقوا

دُموعُ العاشِقينَ إِذا تلاقوا

بِظَهر الغَيب أَلسِنةُ القُلوب

بِظَهر الغَيب أَلسِنةُ القُلوب

The tears of lovers, when they meet

The tears of lovers, when they meet

The tears of lovers when they come together

in absence, are the tongues of their hearts.”

In the unseen, are the tongues of hearts."

Are the tongues of hearts in privacy.