قُلْ لِمَرِيضِ الحَدَقِ

قُلْ لِمَرِيضِ الحَدَقِ

ذِي طُرَرٍ كَالحَلَقِ

ذِي طُرَرٍ كَالحَلَقِ

Say to the one with languid eyes,

Say to the one with inflamed eyelids

whose forelocks are like rings:

And pupils constricted like rings

هَلْ في فُؤادِي لِلضَّنى

هَلْ في فُؤادِي لِلضَّنى

أَوْ جَسَدِي شَيءٌ بَقِي

أَوْ جَسَدِي شَيءٌ بَقِي

Is there, for wasting sickness, in my heart

Is there in my heart any sorrow left

or my body, anything left?

Or remains anything in my body

فَمُقلَتي أَجْفانُها

فَمُقلَتي أَجْفانُها

مَكْحُولَةٌ بِالأَرَقِ

مَكْحُولَةٌ بِالأَرَقِ

For my eye—its eyelids

For my eyelids

are lined with the kohl of sleeplessness.

Are laden with insomnia