لِلحُسنِ حَلاوَةٌ وَبِالعَينِ تُذاقُ

لِلحُسنِ حَلاوَةٌ وَبِالعَينِ تُذاقُ

إِن كُنتَ تَراها بِعُيونِ العُشّاق

إِن كُنتَ تَراها بِعُيونِ العُشّاق

Beauty has a sweetness, tasted with the eye,

Beauty has a sweetness that is tasted through the eyes,

if you see it through the eyes of lovers.

If you look at it through lovers' eyes.

وَالعِشقُ لَهُ مَرارَةٌ يَعرِفُها

وَالعِشقُ لَهُ مَرارَةٌ يَعرِفُها

مَن خَلَدَ في جَحيمِ نارِ الأَشواق

مَن خَلَدَ في جَحيمِ نارِ الأَشواق

And passionate love has a bitterness known

And love has a bitterness known

to one who dwells forever in the inferno of longing’s fire.

To those lost in the hellfire of passion.