لو كنت ترحمُ من أصبحتَ تملكُهُ

لو كنت ترحمُ من أصبحتَ تملكُهُ

لكنتَ أرددتَ موتاً كادَ يُدركهُ

لكنتَ أرددتَ موتاً كادَ يُدركهُ

If you had mercy on the one you have come to possess,

If you had mercy on the one you came to possess

You would have turned back death, which nearly overtook him.

You would have made death, which was about to overtake him, repeat itself

يا من هو الحسنُ إلا أنهُ بشر

يا من هو الحسنُ إلا أنهُ بشر

لا شيء في جوهرِ الأنوارِ يشركهُ

لا شيء في جوهرِ الأنوارِ يشركهُ

O you who are beauty itself, except that you are human,

O you who is beautiful but still human

Nothing shares with him the essence of light.

Nothing in the essence of light rivals him

سل مستهاماً بطولِ السقمِ متصلاً

سل مستهاماً بطولِ السقمِ متصلاً

متيماً أنتَ مبليهِ ومضحكُهُ

متيماً أنتَ مبليهِ ومضحكُهُ

Ask one crazed with love, bound to prolonged illness,

Ask longingly, connected by the length of illness

Enslaved by love—you wear him down and make him laugh.

You make him your amusement and your jester

ترداد ذكركَ يغنيه وَيبذله

ترداد ذكركَ يغنيه وَيبذله

للحَتفِ لَولا رجاءٌ منكَ يمسكُهُ

للحَتفِ لَولا رجاءٌ منكَ يمسكُهُ

Repeated mention of you enriches him, yet would surrender him

The repetition of remembering you entertains and expends him

To death, but for a hope from you that holds him back.

He holds on to the hem due only to some hope he has in you