جعلت فداك لم يخطر ببالي

جعلت فداك لم يخطر ببالي

حضور البين ألا مذ ليالي

حضور البين ألا مذ ليالي

May I be your ransom; it never crossed my mind

I have sacrificed for you, it did not cross my mind

that parting would come, until a few nights ago.

The absence of the beloved, except for nights

فقد وهواك زادني اشتياقاً

فقد وهواك زادني اشتياقاً

على شوقي نواك وأنت قالي

على شوقي نواك وأنت قالي

For, by my love for you, still more longing has been added

For I have lost you, and it has increased my longing

to my yearning by your distance, while you spurn me.

For your affection, while you have abandoned me

وأكد ذاك أني مذ ليالٍ

وأكد ذاك أني مذ ليالٍ

سهرت فلم يزر طيف الخيال

سهرت فلم يزر طيف الخيال

And what confirmed this was that, for several nights,

And that has confirmed, since those nights

I stayed awake, and the phantom vision did not visit me.

I have stayed up, but the specter of imagination did not come

فبت على الفراش كأن قلبي

فبت على الفراش كأن قلبي

يقلبه هواك على المقالي

يقلبه هواك على المقالي

So I spent the night in bed, as though my heart

So I slept on the bed, as if my heart

were being turned over by love of you upon frying pans.

Is flipping over for your love on the frying pans

وكان الطيف يكشف بعض ما بي

وكان الطيف يكشف بعض ما بي

ولست تراه يطرقني بحال

ولست تراه يطرقني بحال

And the phantom used to ease some of what ailed me,

And the specter was revealing some of what is inside me

yet you never see it visit me at all.

Yet you do not see it visiting me at all

فقل لي بالذي أصفاك ودي

فقل لي بالذي أصفاك ودي

أأنت نهيت طيفك عن وصالي

أأنت نهيت طيفك عن وصالي

So tell me, by the One who made my affection yours alone:

So tell me, by what you have purified and loved me

Was it you who forbade your phantom to join me,

Have you forbidden your specter from joining me?

أم السهر الذي الزمتيه

أم السهر الذي الزمتيه

نفى عني الخايل فلا أبالي

نفى عني الخايل فلا أبالي

or was it the sleeplessness you imposed

Or is it the insomnia I have accustomed myself to

that drove the phantom from me? Then I do not mind.

That has denied me the specter, so I do not care