إذا برَاني السَّقَمُ الدائمُ

إذا برَاني السَّقَمُ الدائمُ

سَهرتُ يا مَن طرفُهُ نائِمُ

سَهرتُ يا مَن طرفُهُ نائِمُ

When unceasing sickness wastes me away,

If sickness kept me sleepless

I stay awake, O you whose eyes sleep.

I stayed up though your eyes were closed

لا أرقَت عينَاكَ يا ظالِمي

لا أرقَت عينَاكَ يا ظالِمي

وليسَ يَدري أنَّهُ ظالمُ

وليسَ يَدري أنَّهُ ظالمُ

May your eyes never lose sleep, O you who wrong me,

My unjust one, you did not lose sleep

Yet he does not know that he is unjust.

Though you did not know you were unjust

أما وَطرفٍ هدَّني سقمُهُ

أما وَطرفٍ هدَّني سقمُهُ

وما حَواهُ البَدنُ الناعِمُ

وما حَواهُ البَدنُ الناعِمُ

Indeed, by a gaze whose languor has laid me low,

With sickness making my eyes heavy

And by what the tender body holds,

And my tender body so ill

ما فَقدَ القلبُ غليلَ الهَوى

ما فَقدَ القلبُ غليلَ الهَوى

ولا انتَهى عن لومهِ لائِمُ

ولا انتَهى عن لومهِ لائِمُ

The heart has not lost love's burning thirst,

My heart lost none of its passion

Nor has any censurer ceased reproaching it.

Nor did the blamer stop blaming