إنْ أكُنْ غيرَكُم نظَرْتُ بعَيْني

إنْ أكُنْ غيرَكُم نظَرْتُ بعَيْني

بعْدَكُمْ يا سَوادَ ذاكَ السّوادِ

بعْدَكُمْ يا سَوادَ ذاكَ السّوادِ

If I have looked with my eye at anyone but you,

If I were other than yours I looked with my eyes

after you, O pupil of that pupil,

After you, O blackness of that blackness

أنا واللهِ أجعَلُ الجَفْنَ منْها

أنا واللهِ أجعَلُ الجَفْنَ منْها

حُبُساً دائِماً لسُكْنى السهادِ

حُبُساً دائِماً لسُكْنى السهادِ

I, by God, shall make its eyelid

I, by Allah, make of it

a perpetual endowment for sleeplessness to dwell in.

An everlasting prison for the abode of sleep