1. وددتُ بأنّ القلبَ شُقَّ بِمُديَةٍ

    وأُدخِلتِ فيه ثم أطبِقَ في صدري

    I wished that my heart were slit open with a knife,

    and you placed inside it, then it sealed within my breast,

  2. فأصبحتِ فيه لا تَحُلِّين غيرَه

    إلى مُقتَضى يومَ القيامة والحشر

    so you would be within it, dwelling nowhere else,

    until what the Day of Resurrection and Gathering ordains.

  3. تعِيشِينَ فيه ما حيِيتُ، فإن أمُت

    سكنتِ شِغافَ القلبِ في ظُلَمِ القبرِ

    You would live within it as long as I lived; and if I died,

    you would dwell in my heart’s innermost core, in the darkness of the grave.