منذ غدا طرفُك لي ظالما

منذ غدا طرفُك لي ظالما

آليت لا أدعو على ظالم

آليت لا أدعو على ظالم

Since your gaze became unjust to me,

Since your glance has become unjust to me

I swore never to call down a curse upon an oppressor.

I've vowed not to invoke curses on the unjust

علمت ما بي وتجاهلته

علمت ما بي وتجاهلته

يا عجباً للجاهل العالم

يا عجباً للجاهل العالم

You knew what ails me, yet feigned ignorance of it.

I've learned of my inner self and ignored it

Oh, how astonishing—the ignorant one who knows!

Oh, the wonder of the learned yet ignorant