صِرتُ أَدعوكَ مِن وَراءِ حِجاب

صِرتُ أَدعوكَ مِن وَراءِ حِجاب

وَلَقَد كُنتَ حاجِبَ الحُجّابِ

وَلَقَد كُنتَ حاجِبَ الحُجّابِ

I have come to call you from behind a veil,

I've come to call you from behind the veil

and indeed you were the chamberlain of chamberlains.

Though you've been veiling what is veiled

أَصَواباً تَراهُ أَصلَحَكَ الل

أَصَواباً تَراهُ أَصلَحَكَ الل

هُ فَما إِن رَأَيتُهُ بِصَوابِ

هُ فَما إِن رَأَيتُهُ بِصَوابِ

Do you deem it right (may God set you right)?

Perhaps rightly, as God made you righteous

For I have certainly not deemed it right.

Yet when I saw you I saw no rightness