ما في الفؤاد وإن هجرت سواكا

ما في الفؤاد وإن هجرت سواكا

كلا ولا في القلب غير هواكا

كلا ولا في القلب غير هواكا

There is no one in my heart but you, though you forsake me.

What is in my heart, even if you abandon me, is none but you

No indeed, nor anything in my heart but love for you.

No, and in my heart there is no passion but you

يا هاجراً أضنى المتيّم هجرهُ

يا هاجراً أضنى المتيّم هجرهُ

قل لي متى يدنى الرضا مضناكا

قل لي متى يدنى الرضا مضناكا

O forsaker, whose desertion has wasted the love-enslaved one,

O one who departed, the longing of the infatuated made him sad with abandonment

Tell me: when will your favor draw your wasted lover near?

Tell me when will pleasure be close for one missing you

فوحق حبك لا يفارقني الضنا

فوحق حبك لا يفارقني الضنا

حتى أرى متفيئاً بدراكا

حتى أرى متفيئاً بدراكا

So, by the sanctity of love for you, this wasting will not leave me,

For your love's sake, sadness does not leave me

Until I find myself taking shade beneath your two full moons [reading uncertain].

Until I see the full moon of your face again

فاهجر وعذب بالبعاد حشاشتي

فاهجر وعذب بالبعاد حشاشتي

فأسيرُ حبك لا يروم فكاكا

فأسيرُ حبك لا يروم فكاكا

So forsake me, and torment my remaining life with separation;

So abandon me and torture me with distance

For the captive of your love seeks no release.

For I am captive to your love, not seeking release

هذى دموعي حسرة تهمى على

هذى دموعي حسرة تهمى على

ما فاتني من نيل قرب رضاكا

ما فاتني من نيل قرب رضاكا

These tears of mine stream in sorrow over

My tears shed in sorrow, yearning

What I have missed of attaining nearness to your favor.

For what I missed of attaining the pleasure of your consent

يا هائما بهواهمُ عرس بهم

يا هائما بهواهمُ عرس بهم

ولتفن في عرصاتهم محياكا

ولتفن في عرصاتهم محياكا

O you enraptured by love for them, halt for the night among them,

O you who are infatuated with your love, celebrate with them

And spend your life in their courtyards.

And let your life fade in their dwellings

فعسى أوارك أن يعَلّ بنهلةٍ

فعسى أوارك أن يعَلّ بنهلةٍ

تطفى لهيبا من غليل ظماكا

تطفى لهيبا من غليل ظماكا

So may your burning thirst be slaked with a draught

Perhaps its lights will extinguish with a drink

That extinguishes a flame born of your thirst's burning heat.

The flames of burning thirst for you

يا متلفى وهواه بين جوانحي

يا متلفى وهواه بين جوانحي

رفقاً بمضنى لا يطيق حراكا

رفقاً بمضنى لا يطيق حراكا

O my destroyer, whose love lies between my ribs,

O you who have ruined me, taking my passion within my chest

Be gentle with one so wasted he cannot stir.

Be gentle with one weakened, unable to withstand movement

خذلته دعواه وعزّ نصيره

خذلته دعواه وعزّ نصيره

فمتى تجمع شملَهُ لقياكا

فمتى تجمع شملَهُ لقياكا

His claim has failed him, and his helper is hard to find;

His claim has let him down, and the might of his ally

So when will meeting you make him whole again?

So when will you reunite him, that he meets you?

فارحم حليف مراقد كم بات في

فارحم حليف مراقد كم بات في

ظلم الدياجي معلنا بنداكا

ظلم الدياجي معلنا بنداكا

So pity one bound to his bed, who has spent so many nights in

Have mercy on an ally whose many nights were spent

The gloom of dark nights, proclaiming your bounty.

In the darkness of separation, calling your name

هجر المنام وبات يسكب جفنه

هجر المنام وبات يسكب جفنه

سح الدموع بساحتي مغناكا

سح الدموع بساحتي مغناكا

He forsook sleep, and all night his eyelid poured

He neglected sleep and shed tears from his eyelids

A torrent of tears in the two courtyards of your abode.

Wiping his tears in places of your abandonment

تاللَه ما يشفى تلهّفهُ ولا

تاللَه ما يشفى تلهّفهُ ولا

يبرى ضناه غير قرب لقاكا

يبرى ضناه غير قرب لقاكا

By God, nothing heals his yearning, nor

By God, his anxiety is not cured, nor

Cures his wasting, except the nearness of meeting you.

Is his sadness remedied, but by being close to you