1. أَنا اليَومَ لي وَالحَمدُ لِلَّهِ أَشهُرُ

    يَروحَ عَلَيَّ الهَمُّ مِنكُم وَيَبكُرُ

    I have now—praise be to God—spent months

    with sorrow from you visiting me evening and morning.

  2. تَذَكَّر أَمينَ اللَهِ حَقّي وَحُرمَتي

    وَما كُنتَ تولِيني لَعَلَّكَ تَذكُرُ

    Remember, God's trustee, my rights and my honor,

    and what you used to bestow on me—perhaps you remember—

  3. لَيالِيَ تُدني مِنكَ بِالقُربِ مَجلِسي

    وَوَجهَكَ مِن ماءِ البَشاشَةِ يَقطُرُ

    those nights when you drew my seat close beside you,

    and your face dripped with the water of cheerful welcome.

  4. فَمَن لِيَ بِالعَينِ الَتي كُنتَ مَرَّةً

    إِليَّ بِها في سالِفِ الدَهرِ تَنظُرُ

    Who, then, can restore to me the gaze with which you once

    looked upon me in days gone by?