كم تفي ثم تَنْقُضُ

كم تفي ثم تَنْقُضُ

وتداوي وتُمْرِضُ

وتداوي وتُمْرِضُ

How often you keep faith, then break it,

How often you heal, then break me apart

and heal, and make ill!

And nurse me back, just to make me ill

ناهياً عَنْ هواك مِنْ

ناهياً عَنْ هواك مِنْ

حيثُ تَنهى تُحَرِّض

حيثُ تَنهى تُحَرِّض

Forbidding love for you,

Forbidding your love, yet where

you incite it in the very act of forbidding.

You forbid, you provoke desire

أترى كلَّ مَن أحبَّ

أترى كلَّ مَن أحبَّ

من الناس يُبغض

من الناس يُبغض

Do you think everyone who has loved

Do you think everyone I've loved

among people also hates?

Among people has come to hate me?

لي دمعانِ مُذْهَبٌ

لي دمعانِ مُذْهَبٌ

ذا وهذا مُفَضَّضُ

ذا وهذا مُفَضَّضُ

I have two tears: gilded

I have two tears: one wiped away,

is this one, and this other is silvered.

This one and that streaming down