جسدٌ بلا قلبٍ ولا كبدِ

جسدٌ بلا قلبٍ ولا كبدِ

كيفَ الصلاحُ لذلك الجسدِ

كيفَ الصلاحُ لذلك الجسدِ

A body without a heart or a liver—

A body without a heart or liver

How can that body be sound?

How can it be decent, that body?

مَن عَينه تبكي عليه له

مَن عَينه تبكي عليه له

ولما لها من دائمِ السهدِ

ولما لها من دائمِ السهدِ

One whose eye weeps over him, for his sake,

He who has an eye that weeps for him

And for its own unceasing sleeplessness.

For what it constantly suffers

يا سائلاً عني وعن دنفي

يا سائلاً عني وعن دنفي

هذا عن الزفرات والكمدِ

هذا عن الزفرات والكمدِ

O you who ask about me and my lovesickness,

You who ask about me and my shelter

This comes from sighs and inward sorrow.

This is about sighs and sorrows

ماذا جنت عينٌ بلحظتها

ماذا جنت عينٌ بلحظتها

ويدي فلا بقيت عليَّ يدي

ويدي فلا بقيت عليَّ يدي

What wrong has an eye done with its glance,

What has an eye reaped with its glance?

And my hand? May my hand no longer remain upon me!

And my hands - if they remained my hands