أَقولُ وَقَد صَدَّ عَنّي اِمرُؤٌ

أَقولُ وَقَد صَدَّ عَنّي اِمرُؤٌ

وَما كُنتُ بِالصَدِّ مِنهُ جَديرُ

وَما كُنتُ بِالصَدِّ مِنهُ جَديرُ

I say, when a man has turned away from me,

I speak, though one has turned from me,

Though I did not deserve to be shunned by him:

Yet was I not with turning worthy of him.

كَما لَم أَرى النَفعَ في وَصلِهِ

كَما لَم أَرى النَفعَ في وَصلِهِ

كَذَلِكَ هُجرانُهُ لا يَضيرُ

كَذَلِكَ هُجرانُهُ لا يَضيرُ

Just as I saw no benefit in his companionship,

Even as I have not seen profit in his love,

So his estrangement does me no harm.

So is his estrangement nothing troublesome.