قُل لِمِراضِ الحَدَقِ

قُل لِمِراضِ الحَدَقِ

وَطُرَرٍ مِن حَلَقِ

وَطُرَرٍ مِن حَلَقِ

Say to the languid-eyed,

Say to the sicknesses of my eyes

and to forelocks of ringlets:

And the thrushes in my throat—

هَل في فُؤادي لِلهَوى

هَل في فُؤادي لِلهَوى

أَو جَسَدي شَيءٌ بَقي

أَو جَسَدي شَيءٌ بَقي

Is there in my heart, for love,

Is there in my heart any love left

or in my body, anything left?

Or in my body anything remaining?

إِن لَم تُرَوُّوا عَطَشي

إِن لَم تُرَوُّوا عَطَشي

بُخلاً فَبُلّوا رَمَقي

بُخلاً فَبُلّوا رَمَقي

If you will not quench my thirst,

If you will not quench my thirst out of miserliness

out of stinginess, then moisten my last breath.

Then wet my dried-up existence.

يا مُقلَةً أَجفانُهَ

يا مُقلَةً أَجفانُهَ

مَفتوقَةٌ بِالأَرَقِ

مَفتوقَةٌ بِالأَرَقِ

O eye, whose eyelids

O eyes whose lids

are torn open by sleeplessness,

Are split open from wakefulness!

بَقيتِ في رِقِّ الهَوى

بَقيتِ في رِقِّ الهَوى

شَقيَّةً فيمَن شَقي

شَقيَّةً فيمَن شَقي

you have remained in love's bondage,

You have remained, in passionate love,

wretched among the wretched.

A wretch among the wretched.