إِذا ما اِلتَقَينا لِلوَداعِ حَسِبتَنا

إِذا ما اِلتَقَينا لِلوَداعِ حَسِبتَنا

لَدى الضَمِّ وَالتَعنيقِ حَرفاً مُشَدَّدا

لَدى الضَمِّ وَالتَعنيقِ حَرفاً مُشَدَّدا

When we meet to bid farewell, you would take us,

When we meet to bid farewell, we seem

as we clasp and embrace, for a doubled letter.

In our embraces and clinging, one letter doubled

فَنَحنُ وَإِن كُنّا مُثَنّى شَخوصُنا

فَنَحنُ وَإِن كُنّا مُثَنّى شَخوصُنا

فَما تَنظُرُ الأَبصارُ إِلّا مُوَحَّدا

فَما تَنظُرُ الأَبصارُ إِلّا مُوَحَّدا

For although our persons are two,

Though we are two persons, our forms

eyes behold only one united form.

Appear to all eyes as but one

وَما ذاكَ إِلّا مِن نُحولي وَنورُهُ

وَما ذاكَ إِلّا مِن نُحولي وَنورُهُ

فَلَولا أَنيني ما رَأَت لِيَ مَشهَدا

فَلَولا أَنيني ما رَأَت لِيَ مَشهَدا

And that is due only to my thinness and his light;

That is but my leanness, and his light

so were it not for my moaning, they would see no trace of me.

If it were not for my sighs, no one would have seen us together