وَاللَّه لَو رمتُ في غَرامي

وَاللَّه لَو رمتُ في غَرامي

إِلزامَ من عنه قد نَهاني

إِلزامَ من عنه قد نَهاني

By God, were I to seek, in my passion,

By God, if I pursued my love

to compel assent from the one who had forbidden me this love,

And forced whom from it forbade me

أَقمتُ من حاجبَي حبيبي

أَقمتُ من حاجبَي حبيبي

عليه بُرهانا اِقتراني

عليه بُرهانا اِقتراني

I would establish, from my beloved’s two eyebrows,

I'd make of my beloved's eyebrows

a conjunctive proof against him.

Upon him proof conjoining me