بسهم أجفانه رماني

بسهم أجفانه رماني

وذبت من هجره وبينه

وذبت من هجره وبينه

With the arrow of his eyelids, he shot me;

He shot me with the arrow of his eyelids.

I melted from his desertion and his distance.

And I melted away from his abandonment and parting.

إن مت مالي سواه خصمٌ

إن مت مالي سواه خصمٌ

لأنه قاتلي بعينه

لأنه قاتلي بعينه

If I die, I have no adversary but him,

If I die, I have no adversary but him,

for he himself—his very eye—is my killer.

For he himself is my killer—with his eye.