الأهل لمن أضناه حبك إفراق

الأهل لمن أضناه حبك إفراق

وهل للديغ البين عندك درياق

وهل للديغ البين عندك درياق

Ah, is there recovery for one whom your love has worn down?

O people, to whom his love has brought misery,

And have you an antidote for one stung by separation?

Is there any remedy for the separated lover's agony?

وهل لأسيرٍ سامه قتل نفسه

وهل لأسيرٍ سامه قتل نفسه

هواك وقد زمت ركابك إطلاق

هواك وقد زمت ركابك إطلاق

And is there, for a captive condemned to lose his life

Can a prisoner who yearned for you,

by your love, now that your riding camels are haltered, any release?

Freed from your bondage ever be?

ايا جارة الحي الذين ترحلوا

ايا جارة الحي الذين ترحلوا

فللعيس وخد بالحمول وإعناق

فللعيس وخد بالحمول وإعناق

O neighbor of the tribe that has departed—

O neighbors who have left the neighborhood where we dwelled,

for the pale camels stride swiftly with their loads and hasten on—

With furnishings loaded and children held.

الما تخافي الله في قتل عاشقٍ

الما تخافي الله في قتل عاشقٍ

هجرته حتى في الكرى وهو مشتاق

هجرته حتى في الكرى وهو مشتاق

do you not yet fear God in killing a lover

Do you not fear God in killing a lover,

whom you have forsaken even in slumber, while he yearns?

Whose banishment wounds him though longing impelled.

فقالت وروعات النوى تستحثها

فقالت وروعات النوى تستحثها

ودمع مآقيها على النحر مهراق

ودمع مآقيها على النحر مهراق

Then she said, as the terrors of separation urged her on,

She replied while the spears of separation pierced her,

and tears from the corners of her eyes poured upon her breast:

And tears of her tragedy down her chest streamed.

هو البين فالبس جنة الصبر أو فمت

هو البين فالبس جنة الصبر أو فمت

بداء الهوى قد مات قبلك عشاق

بداء الهوى قد مات قبلك عشاق

“It is separation: so don the armor of patience, or else die

It is separation, so wear the raiment of patience, or die,

of love’s sickness—lovers have died before you.”

Lovers before you from love's illness have screamed.