1. قَسَت الحياة على الطّرِي

    دِ فقم بنا نَنعَى الحياه

    Life was cruel to the outcast;

    so rise with us, let us mourn life.

  2. وقسا الحبيب على الغري

    بِ فلا الدموع ولا الصَّلاه

    And the beloved was cruel to the stranger;

    so neither tears nor prayer avail.

  3. فرغ الحديث ومن رواه

    طُوِي الكتاب فمن طواه

    The tale is finished, and so is its teller.

    The book is folded shut—so who folded it?

  4. عجباً لهذا الحب من

    بدء الزمان لمنتهاه

    How strange this love is, from

    the beginning of time to its end,

  5. وقضائِه بين الذي

    حفظ الوفاء ومن سلاه

    and its judgment between the one who

    kept faith and the one who forgot it!

  6. قتلى الهوى لا يُذكرو

    ن ولا حساب على الجناه

    Those slain by love are not remembered,

    and the perpetrators face no reckoning.