أَنِفْتُ من وصْلٍ لولا تهتكُهُ

أَنِفْتُ من وصْلٍ لولا تهتكُهُ

لكنتُ ذَا أَنَفٍ في الحب من أَنَني

لكنتُ ذَا أَنَفٍ في الحب من أَنَني

I disdained union; were it not for its shameless abandon,

I disdained intimacy lest it be desecrated

I would have been proud in love because of my groaning.

Else I would have been most intimate in love among the loving

وبانَ عَنِّي ولم أَشْعُرْ ببَيْنَتِه

وبانَ عَنِّي ولم أَشْعُرْ ببَيْنَتِه

من بَاطِنِ الوَجْدِ أَو من ظاهِر الأَسَفِ

من بَاطِنِ الوَجْدِ أَو من ظاهِر الأَسَفِ

And he departed from me, and I did not sense his departure,

And it left me before I felt its separation

From inward longing or outward sorrow.

Either from deep passion or from obvious sorrow