أعدْ ذِكرَ من نَهوى فنحنُ على الهَوَى

أعدْ ذِكرَ من نَهوى فنحنُ على الهَوَى

مُقيمونَ لم نَبْرحْ ولو أنَّنا مِتْنا

مُقيمونَ لم نَبْرحْ ولو أنَّنا مِتْنا

Speak again of the one we love, for in love

Remember the one I yearn for, for we abide

we abide, never departing, even if we die.

In passion, unmoving, even if we were to die

وإنْ تذكُرِ العُشَّاقَ في طَبقاتِهمْ

وإنْ تذكُرِ العُشَّاقَ في طَبقاتِهمْ

بِصنْفِ الفِدائيِّينَ بالله فاثْبِتْنا

بِصنْفِ الفِدائيِّينَ بالله فاثْبِتْنا

And if you list the lovers in their ranks,

And if you remember lovers in their ranks

by God, record us among those who sacrifice themselves.

Place us among the self-sacrificing, by God establish us

أما تدري يا رَبِّ الدَّفاتِرَ طوْرَنا

أما تدري يا رَبِّ الدَّفاتِرَ طوْرَنا

وكيفَ على جمرِ الغرامِ تَثبَّتْنا

وكيفَ على جمرِ الغرامِ تَثبَّتْنا

Do you not know, O master of the registers, our state,

Do you not know, O Lord of records, our state

and how we stood firm upon the embers of passion?

And how upon hot coals of love we persevered

نَسقْنا بآهِ الحُبِّ أبراجَ قَلبِنا

نَسقْنا بآهِ الحُبِّ أبراجَ قَلبِنا

وفُتْنا عَلاقاتِ الوُجودِ وفتَّتْنا

وفُتْنا عَلاقاتِ الوُجودِ وفتَّتْنا

With love's sigh, we arranged the towers of our heart,

We built with the sighs of love towers in our hearts

and escaped the ties of existence and shattered them.

And untied the relations of existence and shattered them

ومن عجَبٍ إنَّا جَمعنا على الهَوَى

ومن عجَبٍ إنَّا جَمعنا على الهَوَى

مَحاضِرنا من كلِّ طَوْرٍ وشتَّتْنا

مَحاضِرنا من كلِّ طَوْرٍ وشتَّتْنا

And it is a wonder that in love we assembled

And from wonders that we gathered in passion

our gatherings from every stage, and scattered them:

Our schools from every state and scattered them

محاضِرُ أزرَتْ بالبُدورِ مَطالعاً

محاضِرُ أزرَتْ بالبُدورِ مَطالعاً

وكُلِّ الوَرَى ضمنَ المَطالعِ أنستْنا

وكُلِّ الوَرَى ضمنَ المَطالعِ أنستْنا

gatherings that put the full moons to shame in their risings,

Schools burdened with mysteries the horizons

and amid those risings made us forget all creation.

And all existence within horizons brought us intimacy

ولمَّا تَقيَّدنا بقيْدِ غَرامنا

ولمَّا تَقيَّدنا بقيْدِ غَرامنا

بِصدقٍ فمن قيْدِ الوُجوداتِ أفلَتْنا

بِصدقٍ فمن قيْدِ الوُجوداتِ أفلَتْنا

And when we bound ourselves with the bond of our passion

And when we were bound by our passionate bond

in sincerity, we then escaped the bond of existences.

With truth, from the bonds of existence we broke free

ولله منَّا الحمدُ في كلِّ طرْفَةٍ

ولله منَّا الحمدُ في كلِّ طرْفَةٍ

أُمتْنا ولكنَّ المَواهبَ أحيتْنا

أُمتْنا ولكنَّ المَواهبَ أحيتْنا

And to God goes our praise at every blink:

And to God belongs praise from us in every glimpse

we were put to death, yet the gifts brought us to life.

We lived as a nation but gifts revived us