1. لَو سيلَ أَهلُ الهَوى مِن بَعدِ مَوتِهِمُ

    هَل فُرِّجَت عَنكُمُ مُذ مِتُّمُ الكُرَبُ

    If lovers were asked after their death,

    “Have the sorrows been lifted from you since you died?”

  2. لَقالَ صادِقُهُم أَن قَد بَلى جَسَدي

    لَكِنَّ نارَ الهَوى في القَلبِ تَلتَهِبُ

    The truthful one among them would say: “My body has indeed decayed,

    but the fire of love blazes in the heart.

  3. جَفَّت مَدامِعُ عَينِ الجِسمِ حينَ بَكى

    وَإِنَّ بِالدَمعِ عَينَ الروحِ تَنسَكِبُ

    The tear ducts of the body's eye dried up when it wept,

    and indeed, the soul's eye streams with tears.”