تَروم حبة قلب وَهي لؤلؤة

تَروم حبة قلب وَهي لؤلؤة

وَالقَلب آتيكَ مُشتاقاً بحبته

وَالقَلب آتيكَ مُشتاقاً بحبته

You seek a heart’s core, and it is a pearl.

You desire a heart's seed though it is a pearl

And the heart comes to you yearning, bearing its core.

And the heart comes to you, longing with its seed

لما حَكَت مِنكَ نور البشر قَد جَعَلت

لما حَكَت مِنكَ نور البشر قَد جَعَلت

فَوق الفُؤادِ لنحكى حسن طَلعَتِهِ

فَوق الفُؤادِ لنحكى حسن طَلعَتِهِ

Since it mirrored your radiance of joy, I have placed it

When the light of humanity narrated from you

Above the heart, so that we may mirror the beauty of his countenance.

It made above the heart so we narrate its beauty's rising

لَو رَمت روحي لَجاءَت وَهي ساعِيَة

لَو رَمت روحي لَجاءَت وَهي ساعِيَة

اِلى مُناها الَّذي تَهفو لِرُؤيَتِه

اِلى مُناها الَّذي تَهفو لِرُؤيَتِه

Were you to desire my soul, it would come hastening

If you had desired my soul, it would have come hastily

To its heart’s desire, whom it longs to see.

To its refuge which it yearns to see